From the powerful words of Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, and Pierre Trudeau, to rallying calls during war, civil rights movements, and national turning points, these speeches have echoed ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else. He ...

As Emily Litella used to say, "Never mind." We've all done it, late at night, perhaps in the presence of people we want to impress: tapped our inner Socrates, talked ourselves up to the mountaintop, ...

A new book by former prime minister Tony Abbott on Australian history includes his famous clash with Julia Gillard 13 years ...

A Calvin College communication professor has a new book coming out next month on the history of voting rights in the U.S., the civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, and the efforts of ...

OPINION: We can’t even call Sojourner Truth’s speech ‘Ain’t I a woman?’ because, apparently, she never even said the phrase. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed ...

Kamala Harris closed out the final night of the Democratic National Convention by using her time at the podium to tell the story of her childhood, discuss her presidential aspirations and formally ...

One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with ‘verbal tokens of unity.’ The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration ...