U.S. President Barack Obama paid a brief, unscheduled visit to the Lincoln Memorial Saturday, telling surprised tourists they were able to be there because Congress was willing to agree to a ...

Video recorded by Brendan Gutenschwager shows the large crowd of protesters gathered around the frozen Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. People were seen holding signs referencing climate disaster ...

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 ...

A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall in Washington D.C., on January 18, 2009.

Yet we still know that Black history, and American women’s history, and LGBTQ history, differently abled people’s history, ...

first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton wave to the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington at the conclusion of a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary ...

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 Amendment.