Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images) A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson has called for the memorial to ...

The Jefferson Memorial prior to restoration work, including the removal of biofilm from its dome and roof repairs. (Andy Ellis/Flickr)/CC BY 2.0) An estimated three million people visit the John ...

In direct defiance of President Trump’s recent executive order saying that the Smithsonian, the National Park Service, and others should avoid “divisive narratives that distort” and “rewrite” ...

It hardly seemed the right time for the construction of a new memorial in Washington. The timing was inopportune: The year was 1934, and the country was in the midst of the Great Depression. Along the ...

Jefferson Randolph Kean and six other members of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission filed into the second-floor studio of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, near the White House, at 2 p.m. on Sept. 30 ...

Meanwhile, the purpose of this piece is to look at how God keeps showing up at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Visit that monument, and you will see repeatedly references to God, chiseled ...