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Yes, the Lincoln Memorial really has a typo. Here’s what it says and how it ended up on one of our nation's greatest monuments.
The monument, erected in 1868, is the country's oldest surviving public statue of Lincoln and considered his best likeness in marble. It was removed twice, damaged multiple times and abandoned ...
The memorial to President Abraham Lincoln was a sight to behold. A gleaming white, pyramid-shaped structure that resembled a giant cake with eight layers rising high above the Mall.
The memorial to President Abraham Lincoln was a sight to behold. A gleaming white, pyramid-shaped structure that resembled a giant cake with eight layers rising high above the Mall.
The Lincoln Memorial is marking its 100th anniversary. It officially opened on the National Mall on May 30, 1922. What does this special place have to teach us about the past – and the future?
Like every other monument, the Lincoln Memorial has been feeling the heat. A year ago, Trump used it as the backdrop for his Independence Day “Salute to America,” an expensive military ...
Lincoln was praised as having saved the Union, not as the Great Emancipator. Moton’s speech was censored by the memorial commission to remove references to the ongoing struggle for racial equality.
The words that two Ohio presidents spoke a century ago helped consecrate for America the Lincoln Memorial. When President Warren G. Harding and former President William H. Taft spoke May, 30, 1922 ...
Philanthropist David Rubenstein tours the Lincoln Memorial February 15, 2016 in Washington, DC. Rubenstein announced he is giving 18 million dollars to make improvements to the Lincoln Memorial.