Allen, William C. The Dome of the United States Capitol: An Architectural History. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1992.

———. History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics. Washington, Government Printing Office, 2001. (An on-line version of this book is available in PDF format at the U.S. Government Printing Office Web site.)

———. "In the Greatest Solemn Dignity": The Capitol's Four Cornerstones. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1995.

———. The United States Capitol: A Brief Architectural History. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1990.

Architect of the Capitol. Art in the United States Capitol. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1978.

Brown, Glenn. History of the United States Capitol. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900-1903, 2 vols. (A new annotated edition will be published in 2007.)

Cosentino, Andrew J. and Henry H. Glassie. The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800-1915. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.

Dickinson, William, Dean A. Herrin, and Donald R. Kennon, eds. Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation’s Capital. Athens: Ohio University Press for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 2001.

Documentary History of the Construction and Development of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.

Fairman, Charles E. Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927.

Frary, I. T. They Built the Capitol. Richmond, Va.: Garrett and Massie, 1940.

Fryd, Viven Green. Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Goode, James M. The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.

Green, Constance. Washington, Village and Capital and Washington, Capital City, 2 vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1962, 2 vols.

Hazelton, George C. The National Capitol. New York: J.F. Taylor, 1903.

Holzer, Harold and Joseph Faber. "Sculpture of the United States Capitol." Antiques CXVI, July 1979, pp. 146-59.

Kennon, Donald R. and Thomas P. Somma, eds. American Pantheon: Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol. Athens: Ohio University Press for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 2004.

Kennon, Donald R., ed. A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 1999.

———, ed. The United States Capitol: Designing and Decorating a National Icon. Athens: Ohio University Press for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 2000.

———. Washington Past and Present: A Guide to the Nation’s Capital. Washington: United States Capitol Historical Society, 1993.

Kerwood, John R. The United States Capitol: An Annotated Bibliography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973.

Lowry, Bates. Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy, 1789-1912. Washington: National Building Museum, 1985.

Murdock, Myrtle. Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol. Washington: Monumental Press, 1950.

Peatross, C. Ford, ed. Capital Drawings: Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from the Library of Congress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

100th Congress. The Capitol, ninth edition. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1988.

Reed, Henry Hope. The United States Capitol: Its Architecture and Decoration. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Scott, Pamela. Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

United States Capitol Historical Society. Washington Past and Present. Washington: United States Capitol Historical Society, 1987.

United States Capitol Historical Society. We, the People: The Story of the United States Capitol. Washington: United States Capitol Historical Society, 1991.

United States Senate. United States Senate Catalogue of Graphic Art. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

Wolanin, Barbara. Constantino Brumidi: Artist of the Capitol. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1998. (An on-line version of this book is available in PDF format at the U.S. Government Printing Office Web site.)

American Art and Architecture
(including discussions of the Capitol and the artists represented in its collection)

Andrews, Wayne. Architecture, Ambition and Americans. New York: Harper, 1964.

Brown, Milton W. American Art to 1900. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.

Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1968.

Fitch, James M. American Building: The Forces that Shaped It. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1964.

McLanathan, Richard. The American Tradition in the Arts. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Praeger, 1969.

See files in the Office of the Curator, Architect of the Capitol, for information on artists and architects, works of art in the Capitol, individual room histories, and specialized topics.

Rare and out-of-print books may be available through your state library or the federal depository library program. The Library of Congress maintains a state library Web listing, and the Government Printing Office Web site offers information on how to locate a federal depository library.