The Washington Post has apparently just discovered that many of our nation's founders and leading historical figures were slaveholders (or, using their new vocabulary, "enslavers").

A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that one-third honor enslavers or Confederates.

“Gov. (Huey P.) Long wanted the capitol building to tell the history of Louisiana through its art. In essence, he got exactly that,” says LPB’s senior producer, Dorothy Kendrick.

But I recommend the free, 45-minute tour of the Capitol that takes visitors into the grandest of the building’s 600-plus rooms including the House and Senate chambers and the Supreme Court.

When you think about watercolor, does it take you back to elementary school? Your teacher gave you a small plastic container of rainbow-colored paints. A big cup of water to ...

Lightning flashed over the Missouri Capitol on Oct. 6, 1924, just 13 years after the building burned to the ground following a powerful lightning strike.

The building's art reflects the images Missouri projected of itself in the period between 1915 and 1924. Capitol art captures views of Missouri a century ago | | news-journal.com Skip to main content ...