COVID-19 (coronavirus) Update

The Capitol Visitor Center remains closed. We are not taking tour reservations at this time. Please check out our video tours and other online resources.

Online Gift Shop Now Open

Check out our new Online Gift Shop, https://shop.visitthecapitol.gov. All products are Made-in-the-USA, and many are created exclusively for our store. We look forward to welcoming you to the CVC Online Gift Shop.

National Loyalty

I Am an American Sign

When this country made its decision and went into this war, it was the duty of every American citizen to loyally support the Government of the United States in the prosecution of the war.

Representative Frederick W. Dallinger of Massachusetts, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives, November 10, 1919

The Espionage and Sedition Acts

Victor Berger is Indicted Foe of America

Featured “Victor Berger is Indicted Foe of America,” New York Tribune, March 10, 1918

Asian American Policy during World War II

I Am an American Sign

Featured “I Am an American” Sign Placed in Storefront on December 8, 1941, in Oakland, California, photograph by Dorothea Lange, March 1942

House Un-American Activities Committee

Wait till the Dies Committee Hears about This!

Featured Wait till the Dies Committee Hears about This! drawing by Herbert Block, December 1938

The Pledge of Allegiance

School Children Pledging Their Allegiance to the Flag in Southington, Connecticut

Featured School Children Pledging Their Allegiance to the Flag in Southington, Connecticut, photograph by Fenno Jacobs for the Farm Security Administration, May 1942

Protecting National Treasures

May They Never Have to be Hidden or Kept in the Dark Again

Featured “May They Never Have to be Hidden or Kept in the Dark Again", drawing by Karl Kae Knecht, Evansville Courier, September 2, 1944