“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 ...

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

On May 30, 1922, before an audience of more than 50,000 people (including Abraham Lincoln's only surviving son, 78-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln) William H. Taft, Chief Justice of the United States ...

Dedicated on Memorial Day, 1922, and built as a tribute to President Lincoln, the memorial features the words of two of his most famous speeches. The Gettysburg Address is less than 300 words.

This morning, thousands of people gathered on the National Mall for the annual Easter Sunrise at the Lincoln Memorial service. The tradition dates back to over 40 years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

The Lincoln Memorial’s new undercroft visitor center, scheduled to be completed by July 2026, will not include the area where the graffiti is.

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 ...