“If you so much as touch, or even think about destroying, a statue or a monument in Washington, D.C., you go to jail for 10 ...

Every spring, the Tidal Basin bursts with color as cherry blossom trees (gifted to the city from Tokyo) bloom into cotton ...

Tourists were seen posing for photographs with National Guard troops in Washington, DC, on Thursday, August 21. US President ...

The Lincoln Memorial sits well above ground level at the west end of the Mall, and was designed to create the image of “a temple on a hill,” Litterst said. It was modeled on the Parthenon, the ...

Part of the Lincoln Memorial’s vast “undercroft,” which for more than 100 years has been its dark basement, is now halfway through a multimillion-dollar project designed to transform it into ...

More recently, over the President's Day weekend in February 2017, the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and World War II Memorial, three of D.C.’s most popular monuments, were vandalized ...

The Lincoln Memorial is one of the most iconic landmarks in Washington, DC—but its creation was far from inevitable. In this episode of WETA Arts, we explore the decades-long struggle to ...

The plan is to convert the cavernous undercroft into a type of mini-museum, with exhibits on how the Lincoln Memorial was built, along with a bookstore and theater. The National Park Service says ...

Nearly 60 years since the March on Washington, fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress.

Steps leading to the Lincoln Memorial have been defaced with red paint. @NationalMallNPS crews are cleaning it up. No word on who did this but that person/persons have left the area.

The Lincoln Memorial sits well above ground level at the west end of the Mall, and was designed to create the image of “a temple on a hill,” Litterst said. It was modeled on the Parthenon, the ...