You'll still contend with crowds, but it will be worth it. – Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Although the Lincoln Memorial is just one of the District's many monuments, the larger-than-life Honest ...

In 2019, Lincoln Memorial had 7,808,182 park visitors. There are great walking maps for Washington DC that offers information ...

We were standing in the undercroft, the cavernous, column-lined space under the Lincoln Memorial, as Meyerhoff was helping lead a tour of the ongoing construction of the site. When it was built more ...

Mike Litterst stood in the cavernous space under the Lincoln Memorial and pointed out that 40 feet up you could see concrete beams that support the 175-ton marble sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.

Ground broke on the Lincoln Memorial in 1914. Designers wanted the memorial to stand out and be seen from far and wide. They also wanted the monument to have the appearance of being built on a hill.

Legacies come in many forms, though few could argue over what the 16th president of the United States left behind after he was assassinated. Abraham Lincoln rose from poverty to become a self ...