National monuments are areas of federal land protected for their significant historical, cultural, or scientific importance.

Researchers have shed new light on the construction of a giant prehistoric stone tomb revealing it be a "unique example of creative genius and early science" among Neolithic societies. The findings, ...

You could say Elizabeth Alexander was raised among monuments. Growing up in Washington, D.C., she was surrounded by them. When she was a toddler, her parents took her to the March on Washington in ...