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 ...

Congress began talking about funding “a suitable memorial” after Washington ... Louisa Adams and others formed the Washington National Monument Society. By 1836, the group had elected ...

Senator Jim Justice introduced Wednesday his first bill, the “Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams National Medal of Honor Monument Location Act.” This legislation would authorize the National Medal of Honor ...

A year after her son's tasing death by Palmetto Police, Tracy Washington has used the loss of her son to uplift other ...

The World War II Memorial is located on the National Mall's main drag, between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and can be reached by taking the Metro's Blue, Silver or Orange ...

The National Park Service has announced that peak bloom this year for the signature cherry blossom trees of Washington, D.C., ...

An architectural firm is preparing to honor slain journalists across the world with a unique memorial — one that will be a first-of-its-kind monument ... National Mall in Washington, D.C ...

The George Washington monument used to sit at the old junior high school. When the building was demolished, the monument was saved because of the history it holds. Patty Swango, who’s a part of ...

A tractor-trailer, while trying to turn at the historic War Memorial Monument in downtown Elizabethton, destroyed a cannon ...