Become a paid member to listen to this article. While nowadays it seems a foregone conclusion that the United States capital city is Washington DC, for the first 100 years of the country’s ...

Why and when was it created? The city was crafted in the US constitution to be the capital of the new United States of America. The first brick was laid on July 16, 1790.The location took time to ...

As the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., should be recognized as the Official Sports Capital of the United States,” said McDuffie. “Sports unite communities, drive tourism, and fuel ...