The markers and artifacts removed include a monument honoring the first Confederate soldier to be killed by a Union soldier.

The Pledge sits at the entrance to the Women In Military Service For America Memorial.

Among the places listed for renaming, removing, or contextualizing is Woodrow Wilson High School, but recommendations for some federal sites like the Washington Monument are no longer included.

If you see a silent group of headphone-wearing walkers at the Albert Einstein Memorial on Thursday, there’s a good reason.

When the National Park Service launched a competition last month in search of creative ways to memorialize historical events and figures, they were clear that they weren’t looking for more large structures on the National Mall. And the thirty semi-finalists that were announced today certainly let their imaginations roam far beyond bronze busts. Winnowed down from a pool of 89 entrants, their visions for “Memorials for the Future” include monuments made up of digital…

“Memorials for the Future” is looking for ways to commemorate people and events outside the monumental core.

Tickets for the Washington Monument went on sale this morning.

Close to six million people visited the Lincoln Memorial in 2011, bringing in $204 million to the local economy and helping create 2,075 jobs.

You’ll have to pardon us. We were briefly concerned when we noticed that former T-800 Model 101 cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger showed up in Washington yesterday — after all, Skynet became self-aware last night, and we’re a little on edge about the future of humanity.

Superstar architect Frank Gehry unveiled his designs for the future Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. The memorial, the seventh such structure to be dedicated to a president in U.S. history, is destined for a four-acre site between 4th and 6th Streets SW, south of Independence Ave. The designs must still be approved by a number of federal agencies, and the $100 million it will take to build it still needs to be raised….