The following script is from "The Capitol Dome" which aired on Dec. 1, 2013, and was rebroadcast on May 18, 2014. The correspondent is Scott Pelley. Nicole Young, producer. Over the last few ...

150 years ago on December 2, construction was completed on the Capitol Dome in Washington, marking the birth of one of the most iconic symbols of American democracy. Although the Dome now seems to ...

This is the Capitol that George Washington knew and it’s still the center of the Capitol Building today.

For more than 100 years, the Capitol building has been the epicenter for change in our state. The building is no stranger to innovation either. If it’s walls could talk, it’d have ...

Historian Michael Beschloss just tweeted this picture of the United States Capitol dome under construction during the Civil War. The building in the foreground, Beschloss says, is the Trinity ...

The U.S. Capitol Dome is about to undergo a $60 million restoration. Construction is scheduled to begin in November and last for two years. "From a distance the dome looks magnificent, thanks to ...

There's a story shared among Michigan State Capitol staffers about the building's first dome tour — before the structure was even finished. Sometime between 1872 and 1878, while the Capitol was ...

Since the Civil War, the majestic dome of the U.S. Capitol has symbolized the unity of the United States, despite the discord in the government it overlooks. Abraham Lincoln is said to have urged ...