National Mall

PHOTOS: Darrell Issa Wants To Delay Ike Mem'l Action

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 06.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is asking for further delay in approving the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial near th...

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PHOTOS: Memorial Day Parade, Rolling Thunder Honor Vets, Fallen Soldiers In D.C.

Posted 05.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- As the sounds of motorcycles continue to reverberate throughout the nation's capital following Sunday's 25th anniversary of the Rolling ...

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Gary Sinise Advises National Mall Concertgoers To Leave, Seek Shelter

AP | Posted 05.28.2012

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WASHINGTON — The National Memorial Day Concert has been canceled due to a line of thunderstorms that moved into the District of Columbia on Sund...

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Eisenhower Family Wary Of Memorial's 'Refined' Design

Posted 05.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Eisenhower family isn't feeling optimistic about a "refined" design for the controversial Frank Gehry-designed Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

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LOOK: Winning National Mall Redesign Plans Announced

The Huffington Post | Michael Grass | Posted 05.04.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Before a sell-out 1,200-person crowd seated in a tent on the National Mall on Thursday, three winning plans were announced as part of a ...

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Meryl Streep-Backed Museum Project In Jeopardy

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Support from donors and elected officials for a National Women's History Museum appears to have evaporated after a recent Huffington Pos...

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Weekend To-Do Guide: Marjane Satrapi, Astronomy Night, Picasso's Drawings

editorial.huffingtonpost.com | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 04.27.2012

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WASHINGTON-- There's more than celebrity gawking this weekend in D.C.! Really! Friday brings an internationally reknowned author/graphic novelist t...

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The Secularization of the MLK Monument

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.26.2012

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Even though Dr. King was a Baptist minister and his history-altering speeches about civil liberties are saturated with references to natural rights and profound theological constructs, all 14 quotes carefully etched into his stone monument completely eschew references to God.

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What Will The National Mall Look Like?

| Posted 04.14.2012

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By Karissa Rosenfield (click here for original article) The ten finalists competing in the final phase of the National Mall Design Competition are...

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Designing the Future of the National Mall

Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel | Posted 04.09.2012

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The National Mall gives all Americans -- half of whom will visit the Mall during their lifetime -- an opportunity to connect with our country's history and heroes.

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LOOK: Plans For National Mall Redesign Released

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.09.2012

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WASHINGTON — Lakeside gardens, dining rooms hovering over water, grassy new amphitheaters and underground pavilions at the foot of the Washingto...

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Park Service Restores Bus Tours On National Mall

AP | Posted 04.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service is bringing interpretive bus tours back to the National Mall after the previous tour operator went out of busi...

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Art Inspires Activism on a Grand Scale

Naomi Natale | Posted 05.12.2012

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Today, like every other day for the past four months, I spent hours working with students throughout New Orleans to make bones. Handmade bones. Sculpted from clay into individual ribs, femurs, skulls, any bone in the human body that fires their imagination. But, this is not a study of anatomy.

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Let's Not Politicize The Eisenhower Memorial

Justin Shubow | Posted 05.01.2012

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Is it "nostalgia" to ask that the Eisenhower Memorial "shall blend with the essential lines of the old"? Would critics like to see Paris "improved" by some more oppressive skyscraper? Should Venice, Rome, and Florence get with the times and jazz up their hopelessly backwards cities?

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Fallen Soliders From Iraq, Afghanistan Wars To Get Mall Honor

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- It took almost 60 years for World War II veterans to get a monument in Washington. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened less than a deca...

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Smithsonian Groundbreaking Snubs Obama: Were They Low on Shovels? (Updated)

Dee Evans | Posted 04.23.2012

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It would be interesting to know what the thought process was behind the decision not to have the first black president participate in the shovel part of the ceremony for the first national museum dedicated to African American history; heck, Obama is African American history!

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Smithsonian Black History Museum Groundbreaking Kicks Off

AP | By BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Frederick Douglass was black and that was enough for the Smithsonian Institution to bar the famed abolitionist from speaking at a lectur...

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Man Reportedly Dead After Shots Heard Near National Mall

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 02.12.2012

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A man was killed on Sunday morning after shots were heard near the National Mall, NBC Washington reports. WTOP reports U.S. Park Police found a man...

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Dr. King's 'Dream' Denied to Millions

Daniel Medina | Posted 03.20.2012

With stubbornly high unemployment, a failing education system and mounting federal debt, has Dr. King's dream truly been realized in 2012?

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New on the Mall: A Fitting Monument to Peacemaking

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 02.07.2012

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Safdie's open, light-filled design befits an organization dedicated to the better angels of our nature -- the building has the grandeur of a typical D.C. landmark but exhibits an airiness unusual in the city's monuments.

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PHOTOS: World's Most Controversial Monuments

Travel + Leisure | Posted 01.26.2012

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Even when a monument's construction is well publicized, a positive reception isn't guaranteed, whether because of differing aesthetic tastes, costliness or partisanship.

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Texas Rep. Wants To Nationalize Local D.C. War Mem'l

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia and federal leaders are gathering at the D.C. War Memorial on Thursday morning to reopen the long-neglected and new...

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SLIDESHOW: Shrivers, Kennedys, Others Help Raise Record Amount For People With Disabilities

Posted 12.26.2011

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People with disabilities, students, celebrities and members from the Kennedy and Shriver families proved this past weekend the fundraising power of "B...

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MLK Memorial Designers On Race, Grace & Place

Bonnie Fisher and Boris Dramov | Posted 12.18.2011

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On August 22nd, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial opened to the public. The dream of creating a memorial to Dr. King, initiated decades ago around the kitchen table of two Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity members in Atlanta, has finally become a reality. Dr. King - a private citizen and man of peace - has taken his rightful place on the National Capital Mall on lands previously reserved to honor the memory of past wars and former presidents. This is the last memorial to be built on the central portion of the Capital Mall and it is the first to celebrate the contributions to democracy by an African American.

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MLK Dedication: Thousands Gather In D.C. For Memorial Dedication

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 12.16.2011

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WASHINGTON — For many who helped dedicate the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Sunday, the towering granite monument is a stark reminder t...

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