From the start, the Lincoln Memorial has pulled all kinds of Americans together and even provided a (mostly) civil spot for them to argue. Here’s a biography of the Lincoln Memorial—and its many uses—in photos:
It feels, today, like a secular temple—so quiet and hallowed that many Americans take it as an affront when anyone they might disagree with seizes the space.
But from the start, the Lincoln Memorial has pulled all kinds of Americans together and even provided a civil spot for them to argue.The first idea for a monument to Abraham Lincoln was a grandiose design by sculptor Clark Mills, selected by Congress after it passed a bill to erect a monument in the late 1860s.
Conceived with a nod to both North and South, the Lincoln Memorial has played host to all sorts of movements and events since it was dedicated in 1922, from Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington to President Donald Trump’s planes-and-tanks version of a Fourth of July celebration last summer, with the inevitable Trump protesters. Here’s a biography of the Lincoln Memorial—and its many uses—in photos.
Government officials and construction workers break ground at the site designated for the Lincoln Memorial on February 14, 1914. | Library of CongressThe walls of the inner chamber were built in 1915. | Library of CongressAn aerial view of the near-finished construction of the Lincoln Memorial exterior in 1919. | Library of CongressThe installation of the Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial in 1920.
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