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The attack against Johnson took place six days before another D.C. transgender woman, Dream Johnson, 28, was shot to death ...
The mobile three-quarters scale replica was in Farmington for Independence Day weekend, offering a place to reflect and mourn ...
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
Second, the monuments and memorials – though certainly moving, appropriate, and important in that they keep us forever connected to our past while helping us progress into the future – primarily give ...
The National Mall and Memorial Parks will host an event titled “Revolutionary Heroes” at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington on Thursday.
Hartzog witnessed a much large crowd at the Lincoln Memorial, when a quarter of a million people converged on the National Mall as part of the March on Washington to protest the Jim Crow laws that ...
A sketch hidden on concrete walls in the undercroft of the Lincoln Memorial for over a century may be graffiti of early film star Theda Bara.
The blocks were then shipped to Washington and assembled inside the memorial in 1919. The memorial was dedicated in 1922 in the presence of Lincoln’s son, Robert, then 78.
In a city filled with icons, the Lincoln Memorial is a particularly special place to visit in Washington, D.C. This homage to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who guided ...
After more than a year of silence regarding updates about an actual design, it was announced this week that Japanese architect Kengo Kuma will serve as lead designer of a memorial on the National Mall ...
WASHINGTON — It's been hot in the DMV. One image that perfectly reflects just how hot it has been was captured over the weekend, showing a wax sculpture of the Lincoln Memorial melting away in ...
A wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial statue melts during a heat wave in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2024. Allison Robbert/The Washington Post via Getty While artist Sandy Williams IV told ...