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was initially offered in two forms, a school year version (September 1967August 1968) and a calendar year version (January-December 1968). Historian Kerwood continued work on the bibliography of the Capitol begun by Murfin. Kerwood and his research assistants reviewed books, articles, and government documents pertaining to the Capitol. Some 2,290 entries were included in the bibliography published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1973, architectural history of the Capitol. In 1980 the title of the journal was changed to Congressional Studies to reflect an increased emphasis upon congressional history. Following the departure of Maury and Fox from the historical staff in 1981, the responsibility for editing the journal was transferred to the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, where it was renamed Congress and the Presidency. The Center subsequently assumed sole item presented to the Capitol was a steel engraving of Henry Clay addressing the U.S. Senate during the Compromise of 1850 debates. The engraving was donated to the Society by Mr. and Mrs. Tudor E. Lewis of Pennsylvania through their congressman. President Schwengel transferred the engraving to J. George Stewart, Architect of the Capitol, on August 12, 1964. In 1967 and 1968 the Society made two major donations. The first was an President Schwengel presided over the Society's seventh annual meeting on September 23, 1969, held in the Rayburn House Office Building. The featured speaker, Prof. James I. Robertson of Virginia Tech (seated at Schwengel's right), spoke about the Old Capitol Building that served as a prison during the Civil War. The United States Capitol: An Annotated Bibliography, with a foreword by noted historian Henry Steele Commager. Kerwood left the Society in 1971 to accept a position with the American Association for State and Local History. His successors were William Maury as editor and historian and Maier Fox as his assistant. Maury and Fox established a journal for the Society entitled Capitol Studies, whose initial issue appeared in the spring of 1972. The journal featured interdisciplinary articles on the history o f C o n g re s s a n d t h e a rt a n d WINTER 2013 sponsorship and responsibility for publishing the journal. ACQUISITIONS AND DONATIONS ONE OF THE SOCIETY'S major functions is the acquisition of art and historical artifacts for donation to the Capitol (a complete list of contributions can be found on the Society's web site, www.uschs.org). These items have either been purchased by or donated to the Society to be given to the Capitol. The first empire sofa that had originally been owned by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the second architect of the Capitol. The sofa was given through the Society by its last owner, the Reverend E. Albert Rich of Ellicott City, Maryland. The Latrobe sofa was presented to the Congress in ceremonies on March 9, 1967, and it was placed in what was then known as the Congressional Ladies Retiring Room (now the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women's Reading Room). The second presentation came on July 18, 1968, when the Society donated two THE CAPITOL DOME 25