His suit fit poorly, his boots hurt his feet, but when he gave his speech in his stovepipe, says Holzer, “at least he would look taller than any man in the city.” Lincoln’s top hats were not ...

The top hat had been something of an Inauguration Day tradition for U.S. presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. But the custom seemed to come to an end with Dwight Eisenhower ...