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NEW YORK (AP) — Dignitaries on Wednesday dedicated a new memorial state park overlooking the United Nations to former President Franklin Roosevelt. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, on an ...
These are times when history refuses to stay in its place. Every generation comes to view the past through its own, fresh lens. Their vision almost inevitably produces some historic revision _ and, of ...
WASHINGTON — More than 400 landscaping professionals from over 30 states gathered Monday for a national day of service at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The ...
The Post's Oct. 28 obituary http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102703857.html of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin was a ...
If there's an off-the-beaten-path type of attraction, person or phenomenon in the D.C. area that you think more people should know about, Matt is your guy. An award-winning reporter for WTOP, he's ...
New York — NEW YORK — Ken Burns' recent documentary about the Roosevelts — Presidents Theodore and Franklin, and Franklin's wife, Eleanor — is bound to stir interest in some of the places connected to ...
The grounds of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial have been allowed to deteriorate to the point of sabotaging one of our most valuable strategic assets: the revered memory of a great president.
The remembrance to the 32nd president is projected to cost $40 million. A ghost graffito marks the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital at the site of the planned FDR memorial park on Roosevelt Island. NEW ...