The original statue inside the memorial was also made of plaster due to metal restrictions during World War II. The statue was replaced with the current bronze statue in 1947. Today, the Jefferson ...
Serious planning for the Jefferson Memorial didn’t begin until the 1930s, when then-President Franklin Roosevelt, an ardent admirer of the country’s third president, decided it would be ...
A community-based initiative will be aimed at honoring 33 African-Americans who were killed because of racial violence in Jefferson County from the mid-19th through ...
It’s a rare slice of contiguous, undeveloped land in the area, with similar topography and features to Jefferson Memorial Forest to the south. Daisy Hill’s protection comes through a ...
In an effort to promote community healing, and sew up the wounds of racial injustice, Create Birmingham, a non-profit ...
After a fight over its placement, a Colorado-born national monument honoring the fight for women's suffrage will have a home on the National Mall.
After he was elected in the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt pushed to get a memorial for Jefferson. Congress created the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission. Architect John Russell Pope designed the ...
Some of the most iconic memorials that grace Washington, D.C., drawing millions of visitors every year, only narrowly survived being scrapped altogether. In 1791, Pierre L’Enfant drew up designs for ...
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