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Getty Images The recent assault on the Capitol building and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have upended all aspects of the 59th presidential inauguration. When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are sworn into office tomorrow in Washington, D.C., many of the traditional activities, such as the parade and inaugural balls, will be done virtually or skipped altogether. It won’t be the first time, however, that an inauguration goes by a different script. Though circumstances were largely different, many previous presidential transition ceremonies were modified due to ongoing events, extreme weather, ...

i would like to thank bob sutton for the very warm introduction and for the park service participation in this really cool event. i was so excited when i heard that rick edwards and the center for great plains studies has come up with this idea. it couldn't be a more appropriate place to tackle the significance of what i believe was arguably the pivotal year of american history. 1862 was certainly the most eventful year in american history. perhaps the most misunderstood. the year in which the civil war became a cataclysm. the federal government became a colasses. and the confederate...

don't take my word for it. here's john nicolai, the grouchy gatekeeper of lincoln's presidential office. the secretary whose job it was to say no on behalf of the busiest man in the world and, boy, was he ever good at it. people called him irascible. that was the only one of the names that i can repeat in -- on c-span. when congress adjourned in mid july after about 7 1/2 months in session, having wrenched american history from the dead end of slavery toward the hard, slow course of freedom, having created our modern monetary and fiscal machinery, having established the united states...

forces in kansas, he inadvertently split his own party right down the middle. his narrow reading of the constitution persuaded buchanan that the federal government had no right to prevent it by force. all of which helped to explain why there was no statue of our 15th president in the nation's capitol until a devoted niece willed it almost a century after his presidency. ♪ in 1862 the 37th u.s. congress met. it proved productive as members passed the homestead act, the pacific railway act and the revenue acts. coming up, "time" magazine editor-at-large talks about 1862 and the 37t...

his nar roreading on the constitution. al of which helps to explain why there was no statue of the 15th president until almost a century after his presidency. ♪ >> in 1862 as the civil war was being fought, the 37th u.s. congress met under an unfinished capitol dome with confederate members absent. the lack of opposition proved productive as members passed the homestead act, the more am land grant colleges act and pacific railway act and revenue act. the 37th congress also created the department of agriculture and ended slavery in washington, d.c. coming up, "time" magazine editor-...