The cherry blossoms in the US capital, Washington, DC, have started to bloom, marking the early signs of spring. Peak bloom, ...

In 1833, the Washington National Monument Society formed to raise funds ... what the most intense security was we went ...

Anti-Trump protests during the second Trump administration have been relatively few compared with his first term, a ...

In 2011, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Washington, D.C. area. It created more than 150 cracks in the monument. Now, those have been repaired, and Mike Litterst with the National Park Service says ...

At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...

The District’s National Cherry Blossom Festival’s opening ceremony was Saturday — but the festivities aren’t just limited to ...

The World War II Memorial is located on the National Mall's main drag, between the Washington Monument and ... Service's official World War II Memorial page. DC Monuments & Memorials Night Tour ...

The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave Congress or the president the authority to establish national monuments on federal land as a means of protecting ...