Washington, D.C.'s monumental beauty, global influence, and impressive landmarks make it one of the most beautiful capital cities in the world, but Ottawa's more serene and more refined atmosphere, ...

Flickr/tedeytan The remarkable Carter Woodson Carter Woodson turned his modest DC rowhouse into the nerve center of Black history. The Harvard PhD worked from 1538 9th Street NW to launch Negro ...

After paving over the Rose Garden and adding gold-filigree decorations to the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump will ...

After paving over the Rose Garden and adding gold leaf in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump will embark on his most ...

Most travelers come to Washington D.C. with grand monuments in mind. Visions of white domes, towering obelisks, and years of history remembered in carved stone. Tucked just behind the Capitol, past ...

During sweaty summer months, Abraham Lincoln often decamped about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of the White House to the ...

Yellowstone, Yo­semite, and the Grand Canyon all make for great vacations. But did you know that the Nation­al Park Service also operates dozens of national historic sites and parks that ...

Sheen gained national fame through his preaching and media presence. In the 1930s and 1940s, he hosted the popular radio ...

In fact, it was so all-encompassing that it altered the White House more than the fire of 1814, started by the British during the War of 1812, according to the White House Historical Association.

Tennis star Frances Tiafoe, who grew up in Hyattsville and trained in College Park, is embracing being the face of the DC Open.

Ferdinand Pettrich’s “The Dying Tecumseh” portrays the Shawnee warrior’s death during the War of 1812 in a fictional manner.

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery helping an injured White Union soldier lost in hostile territory.