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 ...

What are the best events? How do we get there? What should we do with kids? Where can we see cherry blossoms besides the ...

WASHINGTON – The shrill, metallic banging noises of a jack hammer echoed around the White House on Monday as crews started removing the large, yellow Black Lives Matter mural down the street from the ...

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 ...

At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...

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

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 ...

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