If the District sleeps alone at night, as the Postal Service song suggests, the city certainly awakens by day. It becomes alive with the buzz of politics and history, lobbyists and tourists. Living in ...

Explore Alexandria, VA, a charming city just outside Washington DC. From historic streets and waterfront views to local ...

The movement to create a memorial to Lincoln began shortly after his assassination. The Lincoln Monument Association was established by Congress in 1867, but the site for the memorial was not selected ...

I'm defenseless against historic architecture. So when I discovered that the Riggs Hotel in Washington, D.C. occupies a former bank building from 1891, I knew I had found the perfect spot for our late ...