When Elizabeth died, she left money for a monument to honor her three sons - all Confederate soldiers. The walking tour also includes stops at the grave of Robert Breckinridge, a Lexington man who ...

On a rainy Tuesday morning, I stood under Abraham Lincoln for the first time. “Those reinforced concrete beams are actually where Abe is sitting right now,” said Sam Meyerhoff, a senior project ...

Carolyn Crouch said for years that when she would bring foreign tourists to the Lincoln Memorial, they would proclaim, "Forrest Gump! Forrest Gump!" Crouch, director of the tourism company Washington ...

September 2, 1912 - On the 100th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, thousands gathered outside the Nebraska State Capitol for the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument. The bronze standing Lincoln statue and ...

While thousands of tourists continue to visit the marble Abraham Lincoln statue sitting at the 16th president’s memorial in D.C., construction crews below his feet are working hard to build a new ...

President Abraham Lincoln is on his feet, his head slightly bowed, hands clasped, allowing his left leg to balance his tall body while he loses himself in thought. The sculptor, Daniel Chester French, ...

A group of local students recently took a multiple-day field trip to our nation’s seat of democracy, Washington, D.C., to ...