If you’ve been down to the Tidal Basin to see the Cherry Blossoms, then you’ve probably already revisited the Jefferson Memorial. When we went down there the other day, we found the Memorial abuzz with a mix of tourists, regular locals, and locals who were hosting tourists. The weather was wet and gray, and the kids in a school group were shifting around to relieve their sore feet. Parents were flush, grandparents rested on the......

Now here’s an interesting development: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has gone online. Again. The last time the Memorial was in the news regarding the Internet was in September, when a “Turk Defacer” hacked into thewall-usa.com and used it to promulgate Turkish nationalism. And, in fact, the Memorial’s presence online has already been established through thewall-usa.com and other websites, where you can find tons of information on everything from the Memorial’s creation to the hometowns of......

The Christopher Columbus memorial fountain at Columbus Circle in front of Union Station is, like so many of the monuments in D.C., under appreciated. When we asked a man leaning against the marble what he thought about it, if he liked it, all he did was shrug his shoulders and say, “Eh.” Compare that to the day it was unveiled. It was June 8, 1912, a day the New York Times called “second only to......

What’s weird about revisiting the Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences is, shamefully, that we had never visited there in the first place. Maybe some of you are in the same boat. Maybe you’ve been to the Mall monuments so many times that you’ve developed a kind of over familiar path that you walk every trip you take there. We certainly do. And, well, we learned that it’s time for that path......

Remember when officials at Arlington National Cemetery were trying to replace the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with a brand new, replica tomb? Well it looks like the the National Trust for Historic Preservation was successful in its campaign to save the original monument, at least for a while. A press release from the non-profit says that the National Defense Authorization Bill, signed into law Monday by President Bush, includes an amendment, sponsored by Senators......