Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued in his new book that the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol Building is a prime example ...

Frustrated by the government’s inaction, more than 1,000 disability activists showed up in Washington DC to protest on 12 March that year. When the group reached the Capitol Building’s stairs, ...

As part of a year-long investigation into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The Washington Post analyzed more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building, from the Crypt to the ceiling of ...

The building is meant to blend with its Capitol Campus surroundings ... and central “mixing chamber,” a term coined by the design team. Also a public space, it’s where lawmakers and staff ...

Fifteen enslaved men were rented by the state to work on construction of the Capitol building between 1845 and 1859. They were forced to quarry limestone and carve out the building’s cellar ...

Per Deseret News archives, the cornerstone to the Capitol ... the original building designated as such was the Territorial Statehouse, built in 1855 in Fillmore with the design of Truman O.