As Black History Month wraps up, this week’s Monument Moment spotlights a more than 130-year-old cathedral in Chicago’s ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama is designating the Stonewall Inn — the New York tavern where a 1969 police raid inspired the modern gay rights movement — as the first national monument dedicated "to tell ...

A downtown section of Birmingham, Ala., including the church where four black girls were killed in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963, has been declared a national monument by President Obama. The 16 th ...

President Barack Obama designated five locations around the country Monday as new national monuments to protect large tracts of land and historical sites, a White House official said. The new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The race is on to win President Barack Obama's attention as he puts some final touches on his environmental legacy. Conservation groups, American Indian tribes and federal lawmakers ...