Not only does the White House serve as the home of the President and his family, it also serves as the official office for the Executive Branch of our government, whose job is to execute or carry out ...

The Pentagon Memorial is designed to honor the 184 people whose lives were lost at the Pentagon and on American Airlines flight 77. At the dedication ceremony for the Memorial, Donald Rumsfeld said, â...

The official name of the National Cathedral is the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. Although it is an Episcopal Church, the Cathedral’s constitution states that it is to be a “house of ...

The Museum of American History opened in 1964 as the sixth Smithsonian building on the Mall. This museum focuses on the history of transportation, agriculture, communication, medicine, science and tec...

The main purpose of the legislative branch is to make the laws that govern the people. There are 100 Senators (two from each state) and 435 members of the House of Representatives (based on the popula...

The Library of Congress is the largest and most important library in the world. Its collection totals over 128 million books, manuscripts, and other items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. Co...

One of the best known and most visited monuments in D.C., the Lincoln Memorial stands as an amazing tribute to our 16th President. The seated Lincoln, with the concerned look of a President embroiled ...

Located at the end of the Reflecting Pool opposite the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial is the first memorial dedicated to those who served our country during the Second World War. Establis...

More than 81 million objects are stored and displayed at the Museum of Natural History, the third oldest Smithsonian building on the Mall. This museum researches and collects material to trace the evo...

In the early 1930’s, Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer of Germany, began enforcing his anti-Semitic ideology. Six million Jews and millions of others were targeted in systematic, state-sponsored genocide. The Ho...