Washington DC’s monuments are grand structures that tell the story of America— inspiring, deeply human, and rich with history. With so much to see and experience in this bustling city, it can be ...

Some of the most iconic memorials that grace Washington, D.C., drawing millions of visitors every year, only narrowly survived being scrapped altogether. In 1791, Pierre L'Enfant drew up designs for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A cross section of Americans awakened early and waited in line for hours to be among the first to ride to the top of the Washington Monument, open to the public Monday for the first ...

A federal design panel approved preliminary designs for security landscaping around the Washington Monument yesterday, but it stopped short of endorsing the National Park Service's sketches for a ...

Washington, DC, is one of the most popular tourist destinations not only within the United States but internationally as well. Millions of people from across the globe come to our nation’s capital ...

By way of contrast, consider the World War II Memorial soon to be built a few miles away on the main east-west axis of the Mall in Washington, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

"A Soldier's Journey" commemorates the sacrifices of World War I soldiers, becoming the centerpiece of the national memorial in Washington, D.C. "A Soldier's Journey" commemorates the sacrifices of ...

In his master plan for the new city of Washington, D.C., architect Pierre L’Enfant left a spot for a large equestrian statue of George Washington to be placed at the intersection of a line running ...

America, your front yard has been militarized. Yet residents and visitors there hardly pay the troops any mind. It’s the normalization of excessive federal force under President Donald Trump, just ...