The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others ...

The Lincoln Memorial At the turn of the 20th century, lawmakers got serious about turning Washington into something more than an unseemly swamp on the banks of the Potomac. Fueled by the City ...

One hundred years ago, as Kansas City's infamous Liberty Memorial was being constructed, a metal box containing 20th-century documents and artifacts was placed and sealed within the walls of the ...