The "Screen on the Green" classic film festival starts its five-week run with a showing of "Singin' in the Rain," Monday at dusk on a giant screen on the Washington Monument grounds (Metro: ...

The Freedom Suits Statue outside the Civic Courts Building downtown has been added to the National Underground Railroad ...

In 1839 she took a job as a schoolteacher before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1854 and ... Abraham Lincoln moved into the Oval Office in 1860, she was back in the patent office.

King Charles and Queen Camilla’s trip to Ottawa featured two days of festivities, traditions and the first throne speech by a ...

Calling all history buffs! Step back in time at one of these significant sites in each state, from Revolutionary War ...

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

The event marks the culmination of a $1.6 million capital campaign to preserve and support the Mary Washington Monument site and legacy. The campaign has been led by co-chairs Kelly Johnson and ...

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 Washington Monument, which has been closed for renovations for the last three years, is ready to open to the public again. Yesterday the park service held a ceremony to announce the opening ...

“Although Mary Washington never fought in the American Revolution, she truly is one of the men and women who achieved American independence,” Storage said. “As we stand before this monument ...

Thomas P. McCracken, an architect who guided the restoration of Baltimore’s Washington Monument and the Basilica of the Assumption, died of renal failure related to diabetes on Tuesday at ...

President Trump is reinstating commercial fishing in a national marine monument after the practice was blocked by his Democratic predecessors. Trump is expected to issue a proclamation Friday ...