Stephen Potter, a retired regional archaeologist for the service’s national capital region, cataloged some of the graffiti in ...

A profile sketch of a woman with curly hair, dark makeup, and smoking a cigarette scrawled on concrete in the undercroft of ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

World-class museums and monuments. Historic neighbourhoods. Green escapes in the urban city. Washington, DC has no shortage ...

Forty-five feet below the Lincoln Memorial is art of a very different kind. On the pillars in the memorial's basement, where ...

President's Day makes for a welcome respite between Christmas and spring break by honoring the men who held the office.

There could be implications for your mail and package delivery, as the United States Postal Service shuts down in honor of ...

Presidents Day — the third Monday in February — originally was linked to the the birthday of George Washington, our nation's ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...