Lincoln Memorial News

Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air on an Independence Day that began with the Statue of Liberty's crown opening to the public for the first time since Sept.

LITTLE CHUTE - Freedom resident Troy Landwehr relied on the power of Wisconsin cheddar to carve one of America's big cheeses, President Abraham Lincoln.

The owners of Lairmont Manor are contemplating an exhibit to mark the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson's concert in Bellingham and are trying to locate people who attended her 1941 performance at Bellingham High School.

Thanks to parental support, student enthusiasm and a director with a vision, the Northern High School concert band has literally been playing its way through history in the past couple months.

History speaks through artifacts and does so eloquently in two new exhibitions opening Sunday, June 28, at the Speed Art Museum.

Kinston High School's graduation on June 13 was plenty exciting - but for six particular graduates, it was just the beginning.

Aerial view of the Lincoln Memorial and surroundings. The nation's capital, with its monuments, museums, and easy access to public transportation, is the setting for the American Chemical Society's 238th national meeting .

The economy has families scaling back on everything from dining out to vacationing, but a summer getaway doesn't have to break the bank.

West Lincoln High School's chorus received a $14,000 grant making it possible for them to sing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." My family and I drove aside the Mall in Washington, DC, creeping along Independence Avenue in search of a parking spot.

You can't be loved and adored by everybody, but if you're President Barack Obama and it concerns the media, you can come awfully close.

The chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party wants a Republican legislative aide fired for sending out a "reprehensible" e-mail depicting President Obama as two cartoonish white eyes peering from a black background.

City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of a prominent congressman, sought political support from Baptist pastors and prayers from constituents Tuesday as her re-election bid collided with a corruption probe involving cash bribes handed over in fast-food parking lots.

'The only change you'll see are falling costs as reform take hold.' Obama claims that Americans can keep the insurance plan they have and the doctors they have, if they like them, with health care reform.

If workers cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site didn't have enough to worry about, now they've got to deal with radioactive wasp nests.

A `Brothers Grim' Fairytale for 2009 and Beyond: Once upon a time there came a president who crossed the global village telling bigger whoppers than any other president, including George W. Bush.

Construction crews were still completing the plazaa s parking area earlier this week.

Twenty-five culturally significant recordings -- including a 70-year-old radio broadcast of Marian Anderson's recital at the Lincoln Memorial, a Dylan Thomas reading of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and Winston Churchill's post-World War II speech that coined the term Iron Curtain -- will be preserved in a special sound archive.

With his address, US President Barack Obama offered a olive branch to the Islamic world.

A few days ago it was announced the Florida Chapter of Free Republic would be gathering together in D.C. to attend the National Tea Party.