Freemasons played a significant role in the American Revolution; George Washington was a freemason, as was Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The masons helped to lead the ...

On Dec. 1 from 3 to 8 p.m., Booker T. Washington National Monument will host “An Old Virginia Christmas of 1860.” Washington described Christmas in the mid-19th century as the “great event ...

Washington Irving was born in New-York on the ... and took part in the meetings held for the purpose of collecting funds to erect a monument to his memory in this City -- a design which I am ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned ... Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once the ...

On the 22d February it is proposed that there shall be an effort made throughout the United States to raise sufficient funds to carry on the work upon the Washington National Monument during the ...

Glenda Ford, left, takes selfie with best friend Charlene Phipps before the lighting of the Washington Monument Thursday night in Mount Vernon. The Baltimore holiday tradition included music ...

The Washington Monument closed Sunday because of high winds, the National Mall and Memorial Parks branch of the National Park Service announced on social media. The branch later clarified that the ...

At the time of the sculpture’s dedication in Washington, DC, Frederick Douglass responded that, “What I want to see before I die is a monument representing ... 459,446. By 1860 it was ...

and the well-preserved star-shaped fort lies protected within the Governor’s Island National Monument, whose grounds visitors can tour weekends. Intended to defend Washington, D.C. from river ...