On this day 85 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial in a ceremony.

Washington conceded the system of human ... Gunter Professor Ellis believes a plaque should be put up at the Jefferson Memorial to correct the record and admit some of the Declaration author's ...

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson ... Congress created the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission. Architect John Russell Pope designed the memorial, and Pope used Jefferson's architectural ...

Local military veterans, family members of veterans, school kids and everyday civilians turned out Monday for separate ...

This airy peninsula just south of the Jefferson Memorial drives a grassy wedge between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel. The park draws sports enthusiasts throughout the year with its ...

The design competition for the memorial begins November 11 ... Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Here, Captain Jefferson Keel (U.S. Army retired), a member of the memorial ...