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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. | A $700,000 restoration project at the temporarily closed Abraham Lincoln's tomb in Springfield is expected to finish in April. The interior of the tomb in the Oak Ridge Cemetery, ...

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with a dream – and in the years since, millions have come here to make their own voices heard. According to Mike Litterst, ...

It seems so eternal, doesn’t it? The gleaming white marble. The massive columns. The huge statue of a man sitting straight up with purpose and solemn dignity. The face is wise and weary and staring ...

In 1939, singer Marian Anderson performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a crowd of over 75,000 after she was not allowed to sing at Constitution Hall because she was Black. In 1963, Martin ...

SPRINGFIELD, IL- A sword stolen from a state historic site will be replaced Friday. Last October a teenager broke the sword off one of the military figures on the Lincoln Tomb site. That teen was ...

Beneath the Lincoln Memorial is its "undercroft," a cavernous area filled with rows of tall concrete columns and large expanses of open space that has long been hidden from the public — and soon, it ...

The Lincoln Memorial has been the site of historic moments in American civil rights history, and a museum set to open in 2026 will highlight how the memorial became a platform for the First Amendment.