This year's heatwave tested the monument's durability. As the temperature in the nation's capital rose sharply, the wax likeness of President Abraham Lincoln began to melt, leading to significant ...

The Lincoln Memorial honors Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of ... and in the wake of the tragedy, the Lincoln Monument ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

The proposed location for the monument didn’t make sense to ... “So long as I live, I’ll never let a memorial to Abraham Lincoln be erected in that goddamned swamp,” Cannon said, according ...

Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Although the Lincoln Memorial is just one of the District's many monuments, the larger-than-life Honest Abe is also among travelers' favorites. History buffs might ...

The Lincoln Memorial has been the site of historic moments in American civil rights history, and a museum set to open in 2026 will highlight how the memorial became a platform for the First ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

The 60-foot-tall profiles of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were intended to represent the first 150 years of ... Though the artist passed away before the ...

and Abraham Lincoln. Once president, Reagan initially resisted establishing a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. But today, there is a granite memorial on the Mall for King, placed in the ...

U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) has filed legislation that would direct the secretary of the Interior to carve the ...