On Aug. 22, 1923, fire broke out at the historic state capitol building in Tuscaloosa. It was Alabama’s second statehouse but ...

Unlike many of the other cities Lafayette would have visited during his tour of America, Cahawba was still primarily rugged frontier land, only being settled as the state capitol around 6 years before ...

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 ...