Experts believe the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. sits above a racy secret involving a seductive film star. Getty Images Here’s a titillating tale from the crypt. Experts believe the ...

The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

This year's heat wave tested the monument's durability. As the temperature in the nation's capital rose sharply, the wax likeness of President Abraham Lincoln began to melt, leading to significant ...

The seductive image under the Lincoln Memorial, likely done with a carpenter’s pencil, was recently discovered on the pillars in the undercroft, or basement, area of the monument. The carpenter ...

Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Although the Lincoln Memorial is just one of the District's many monuments, the larger-than-life Honest Abe is also among travelers' favorites. History buffs might ...

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked ... decades of squabbling before the Lincoln Memorial was built. Though Congress had formed the National Lincoln Monument Association to begin planning in 1867 ...

The Lincoln Memorial became more than a monument; it became a stage for justice. Marian Anderson, once barred from singing at Constitution Hall because of her race, performed there in 1939 before ...

The 60-foot-tall profiles of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were intended to represent the first 150 years of ... Though the artist passed away before the ...

A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...