The swearing-in of a new president is one of the most treasured rituals in American politics. And it’s one that, a little-known history shows, has been meaningfully shaped by Christian nationalism — ...
During the swearing-in, Donald Trump raised his right hand and placed his left hand on the Bible. He then took the oath of ...
The phrase ‘so help me God’ is believed to be a part of the presidential oath ever since George Washington is said to have ...
I took it when I began work at the Library of Congress, incoming Vice President JD Vance will, too, and millions more have spoken the same words. But only the president takes an oath written into ...
Although presidents and other government officials have historically sworn the oath on a Bible, the Constitution doesn’t require it.