The Lincoln Memorial: The History and Legacy of Washington D.C.'s Famous Monument

*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the memorial's construction by people who worked on it*Explains how the memorial's site was chosen and how it was built*Includes a table of contents“IN THIS TEMPLEAS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLEFOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNIONTHE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLNIS ENSHRINED FOREVER” – The epitaph by Royal Cortissoz engraved in the Lincoln MemorialPeople have always loved symbols and monuments. Even before there was any sort of written language, there were places and things considered sacred, whether it was the Mesopotamians’ ziggurats or the Egyptians’ pyramids. Thus, it had long been a practice to make some sort of memorial to those who had died as a way to remember and honor them.Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican