C-Span’s Rebecca Roberts took a walking tour of Congressional Cemetery last month, and now the cable station has a great documentary up about our historic gem. From their website: “Each week American History TV’s American Artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites from around the country. Located 18 blocks from the U.S. Capitol, Washington’s DC’s […]
Today, the Capitol seems an pristine, inviolate building, surrounded by further government buildings. Inside are only those intent on running the country – or touring the building. But it was not always thus. For about a year, the Capitol, far from producing only laws and regulations, also regularly produced…bread. Today we look at this odd […]
Last week, we looked at Thomas Edison’s failed attempt to get Congress to change its ways and vote electronically. Nonetheless, it was clearly an idea that needed to be implemented at some point, and so today we’ll look at some of the further attempts made to improve the way that Congress votes.
This week’s column should be more accurately called a Found Capitol Hill column, for it is about something I found that belongs to a long-ago era, when Washington DC was home to the best baseball team in the country.
While I was escaping the heat of DC this summer, a great change came over Lincoln Park: The Emancipation Statue there was cleaned up and about 100 years of copper carbonate was removed from it, changing it from a statue with a greenish cast to a deep brown. I didn’t watch the transformation, but […]