At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...

Monuments, meanwhile, typically pay homage to figures or events. From the memorials dotting Washington, D.C.'s National Mall to the Communist-era statues in Budapest’s Memento Park, these ...

decided it would be fitting to dedicate a national monument to the Founding Father. But Roosevelt’s dream quickly turned into a nightmare. The Washington press waged an all-out war against the ...