Happy Inauguration Day!

I’ll probably be watching the big event from my laptop.  Or, I may get really crazy and go down to the dorm lounge/bar.  Exciting!

If, like me, you can’t make it to the Mall, you can check out this photo-filled post on the Lincoln Inaugural Bible at the blog of the Library of Congress.  The LOC also has an online exhibit of inaugural materials, including Thomas Jefferson’s manuscript of his first inaugural address and a draft of the poem Robert Frost composed for the Kennedy inauguration.

Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888)
James M. Ives (1824-1895)
Washington’s reception by the Ladies, on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J. , April, 1789: on his way to New York to be inaugurated first President of the United States. New York: N. Currier, ca.1845
Lithograph
Prints & Photograph Divisions (3A)
LC-USZC4-703 [cph 3b52213]

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