The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

Pullman, Centralia, and Elcor are among towns whose fortunes rose and fell with one company. Some bounce back; others went ...

I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota,” Roosevelt later wrote; it was in ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

My wife, Louisa, and I recently found ourselves looking up at a statue comprised of 7,400 welded aluminum plates, the Winged ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

The founding father’s statue has stood in Capitol Square downtown since 1857 but hasn’t had a fresh coat of lacquer in 43 ...

A new monument at White Rose Cemetery will be dedicated on Memorial Day to honor Washington County service members killed in action whose remains were never recovered. The dedication will take ...

Mount Vernon is seemingly the center of George Washington’s legacy but it began with his mother Mary Ball Washington who was buried in Fredericksburg under a monument that resembles D.C.’s ...

The National Mall, which can hold more than 1 million people, is flanked by the the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol, creating opportunities for dramatic visuals behind the draft stage.