The Tidal Basin, the National Mall, and the White House: American Mythology
Destination: Washington DC
Duration: 4 hours
Guide: Luke Nathan Phillips
The American experience has always featured incredibly diverse political ideas and principles in conflict, and the American system of government has been tested time and time again on how it has weathered these challenges. The great monuments of D.C.-- the Jefferson Memorial and Lincoln Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Memorials, the Washington Monument, the memorials to America's great wars, and the White House itself-- all tell these stories in their walls and pillars, of the men who presided over these eras and the peoples and parties and institutions that fought, decade after decade, to shape America. Consider the epic of America on this tour, wandering from the Tidal Basin to the National Mall to President's Park, ending at the very center of the legenda…