Looking at the Lincoln statue, known as the Emancipation Memorial or the Freedmen's Monument, Lee ponders the barely-clothed Black man at Lincoln's feet, who is looking not exactly heavenward, but ...

The Lincoln Memorial is one of the most iconic landmarks in Washington, DC—but its creation was far from inevitable. In this episode of WETA Arts, we explore the decades-long struggle to commemorate ...

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was closed on Friday morning after it was discovered that someone had vandalized the iconic statue in the middle of the night. Park police say that sometime ...

As we approach the end of another tumultuous year, I recall completing one of my bucket list items a few years ago. It had a lasting impact. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is an open-air ...

In 1876, Frederick Douglass addressed a crowd of some 25,000 people gathered to dedicate a new monument to Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Memorial statue, a life-size bronze also known as the ...

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.

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 ...