Starlette Thomas remembers coming down almost daily to the intersection of 16th and H streets, to protest police brutality ...

Bowser has said she doesn’t support the bill, known as H.R. 1774. Work is expected to take six to eight weeks to complete, according to a statement from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

The Washington Monument syndrome ... quite a few calls from Honor Flights and have had to let them know that the memorial will be closed and the fountain will be off, that the Mall is legally ...

We are reaching the point where, if the Washington Monument were to be blown up tomorrow, it would be anyone’s guess whether jihadists or the ‘anti-fascist’ Left did it. Once every ...

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

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 ...

This green space in downtown Washington, D.C., includes more than 1,000 acres of land showcasing such iconic sites as the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the Martin Luther King, Jr., ...