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Index
General
- Highlights of Past Inaugurals
- Rick Shenkman: Nixon Pigeon-Proofed His Inaugural Parade Route
- Why Do Presidential Inaugurals Often Sound So Much Alike?
- Library of Congress:"I do solemnly swear"
- NYT Video: Inaugurations in times of peril
- Food served at inaugurals ... delicious sometimes
- Jill Lepore: Have inaugural addresses been getting worse?
- Religion and the Inauguration
- Megan McKee: Have Presidential Inaugurations Always Featured Religion?
- John Tierney: Wartime Inaugurations Are All About Tone
- David R. Stokes: Of Mice, Pumpkins, and Former Presidents
- Carlo D’Este: The Power of Oratory: Why Churchill is Still Relevant
- Thruston Clarke: Why JFK's Inaugural Succeeded
- Bob Dart: The Best and the Worst of Inaugural Addresses
- 100 Years Ago: William Howard Taft's Disgraceful Inaugural Address
- Donald Ritchie: Who Moved the Inauguration? Dispelling an Urban Legend
- Bonnie Goodman: How Have Wartime Inaugurations Been Handled in the Past?
- Inaugurations Used to Be Simpler Affairs
- Rick Shenkman: Inaugurations Are Supposed to Be Boring
- AP: Q & A on the History of Presidential Inaugurations
- AP: Inaugurations ... New Exhibit at the Library of Congress
- Joacqueline Trescott: Presidential Inauguration Snubs And Flubs
- Andy Bowers: Why Do They Play"Hail to the Chief" for Presidents?
- Ken Ringle: Inaugural Meals and The National Mood
President Barack Obama's Inauguration (2009)
- Manisha Sinha: We Are All Americans in the Age of Obama
- Bonnie Goodman: Highlights of Barack Obama's Inauguration
- Harvey J. Kaye: On Hearing Obama Speak Paine’s Words
- Elvin T. Lim: Inauguration 2009: Obama's Break with Tradition
- Gil Troy: Obama's Inaugural Competition: His Predecessors and His own Eloquence
- Charles Krauthammer: Obama's Inaugural Surprise
- Speech puts a new frame on Obama's call to serve
- Smithsonian curators hunt for museum-quality Obama artifacts
- President-Elect Obama To Take Oath of Office on Lincoln-Inaugural Bible from Library of Congress
- For the record, Obama retakes flubbed oath
- After Flub, Experts Say, A Do-Over Couldn't Hurt
- Rejecting Bush Era, Reclaiming Values
- Obama's religion-studded inauguration joins a long history
- Obama inaugural echoes FDR, JFK and Reagan
- Jay Janson: Mr. President, They Did Not Die For Us When Killing Vietnamese in Khe Sahn, Vietnam
- Rupert Cornwell: Can Obama match Abe Lincoln's gold standard?
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. compares Obama's inaugural to Lincoln's great speeches and finds it ... comparable
- John Steele Gordon: Obama isn't just our first black president. He's the first who doesn't come from Northwest Europe.
- Ira Chernus: Obama's Promise of Change Comes Wrapped in Red, White and Blue
- Larry Sabato: Inaugurations Past and Present ... How Will Obama Measure Up?
- At Capitol, slavery's story turns full circle
- Words of Lincoln Will Be Woven Into Obama Inaugural Activities
- Swearing in: 'Barack Hussein Obama'
President George W. Bush's Second Inaugural (2005)
- Tom Wolfe: What Bush and Monroe (And Some President In-between) Have in Common
- Patrick Buchanan: They Attacked Us Because We Love Freedom? n
- Eric Foner: President Bush's Cynical Use of the Word Freedom
- David Adesnik: The Cynics Are Wrong About Bush's Second Inaugural: His Rhetoric Likely Will Have Positive Consequences
- Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei: The Historians Who Influenced the Writing of Bush's 2nd Inaugural
- Peggy Noonan: Why I Disliked Bush's Inaugural Address
- Michael Kessler: The Controversy Over Prayers at the Inauguration
- Michael Kessler: An Historical Look At War-time Inaugurations
- Jeff Jacoby: Bush's Inaugurations: 2001 and 2005
- Orlando Patterson: Because Freedom Has Many Meanings, So Does Bush's Inaugural
- John Tierney: Bush's Speech Reflected the Main Themes of America's Civil Religion
- Jonathan Dresner: Inaugural Zombie Error
- Harris Baseman: A Novelist Wonders If His Plot Could Come True ... Assassination at the Inauguration?
- Joshua Brown: Inaugural Procession (Illustration)
- Fred Hiatt: Fortunately Jefferson Can't See the Barriers Outside His Monument