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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erin Spencer Sairam covers gender and politics. Currently, there are no monuments to women on the National Mall. That's about to ...

Approved by Congress in 2020, the monument will be located on two and a half acres in the Congressional Gardens.

I think it's going to be a really important, memorable day,” said one Hartford memorial committee member ahead of a new ...

For curator Don Talbot, a retired veteran, it represents the completion of a vision he first had in the mid-1990s.

Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national parks columnist, but some of his favorite adventures have happened inside state parks. What is a national monument, anyway? That’s what I kept asking ...

The structure is made of white marble blocks that range in thickness from 15’ at the base to 18" at the monument’s top. The marble changes color at 150 feet; that marks the spot where construction ...

The Washington Monument will transform on New Year’s Eve into the "world’s tallest birthday candle in honor of our Nation’s 250th birthday," according to the national Freedom 250 organization. The ...