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Upshot of National Guard in DC? At least the Washington Monument is safe

Thousands of Washingtonians protested the presence of the National Guard on Saturday, but one-on-one, the soldiers are not ...
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The Reinvention of George Washington’s Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence

A new biography examines how 19th-century Americans remembered Mary Ball Washington, who raised the future president largely ...

Where should the new women's suffrage monument on National Mall go?

There are four sites are under consideration: east and west of the Constitution Gardens, D.C. War Memorial and the Washington ...

Republicans push for a monument to Charlie Kirk in the Capitol

Congressional Republicans want to build a statue of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the U.S. Capitol.

Mills introduces ‘DON-ument’ bill to make border wall a national monument

Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to make the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border a national monument, dubbing it the “DON-ument Act” in a nod to President Trump. The “Southern ...