The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson , one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers as the main drafter and ...

WASHINGTON — The statue in the Jefferson Memorial is 19 feet tall, but it’s the words carved in stone around the bronze figure that are truly monumental. Such as these, from Jefferson’s Declaration of ...

Fortunately, Thomas Jefferson can't see the ugly concrete barriers and metal fences impinging on his monument; he is facing the other way, across the Tidal Basin. The barriers were shoved into ...

WASHINGTON -- What's darkening the formerly white rotunda of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial? Is it dirt? Is it mold? No, it's biofilm! The National Park Service said in a news release Wednesday ...

Nat Abeles, a former president of the group, says he proposed to his wife Paulie at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. The association’s primary task is to maintain the graveyard at Monticello.