Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said last month that there will be enough women on the Supreme Court when there are nine. While that may be “enough” women for the Supreme Court, it is not enough for our ...
Mary McLeod Bethune will be the first African American to be honored in the US Capitol's National Statuary Hall. US Navy Lt. William Edmund Newsome looks at a bronze statue of Confederate president ...
And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: July 2nd, 1864, 153 years ago today … the day Congress approved the creation of a National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. Located in the original ...
Washington loves its statues. In parks, outside public buildings and even at Nationals Park, stone and metal likenesses of historical figures are everywhere. And nowhere is this more true than at the ...
Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune became the first Black American to have a state-sanctioned statue erected in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall on July 13. Bethune’s placement holds ...
BACK TO YOU. THANKS, BILL. PULITZER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR WILLA CATHER IS NOW ENSHRINED IN THE STATUARY HALL OF THE U-S CAPITOL. WHILE THE BRONZE STATUE OF THE LITERARY GREAT WHO CHAMPIONED NEBRASKA’S ...
CAPITOL HILL – The late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., will “lie in state” this Thursday in Statuary Hall of the Capitol ahead of his funeral in Baltimore on Friday, officials announced. Lawmakers from ...