In 1943 when Congress okayed the establishment of The George Washington Carver National Monument, it was a powerful tribute to George Washington Carver as a leading agricultural scientist, educator ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The roots of the U.S. labor movement can be traced back to more than 100 years on Chicago's far South Side. That work and history is now being preserved the Pullman National Monument.

The Washington Monument, a soaring tribute in the heart of the nation’s capital to George Washington, whose Abrahamic faith in American independence earned him the eternal distinction of Father of His ...

View of carving and Stone Mountain Park grounds in 1928, from the Atlanta History Photograph Collection of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center (image courtesy the Atlanta History ...

A new national monument dedicated to the murdered teenager Emmett Till and his mother honors three sites critical to Till's story, and central to the birth of America's civil rights movement. The ...

As I stood alone on Hospital Rock at Lava Beds National Monument, the wind whipping my hair around as the rain persisted from the west, I was struck with both a sense of awe at the sight of the land ...

If you’re driving along the Columbia River Gorge, you might blink twice at the sight of a towering circle of concrete monoliths rising from the rolling sagebrush. It looks like Stonehenge somehow ...