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When the COVID pandemic stuck last spring, thousands of cultural heritage sites, including the Washington Library and Mount Verno…
The South Carolina State House Grounds is a landscape of monuments and memory. Since the capital moved from Charleston to Columbi…
While work continues on the podcast's upcoming Season 5, we’re pleased to offer you another summer interlude. For today’s show, w…
This Friday marks the anniversary of Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the moment on June 19, 1865 when enslaved people i…
In 1812, Pennsylvania state legislators contemplated something that most Americans would now find completely unimaginable: demoli…
In 1757, Martha Dandridge Custis paid the artist John Wollaston the handsome sum of 56 pistoles for portraits of her, her husband…
In 1784, Revolutionary War veteran Samuel Shaw set sail on the Empress of China destined for the city of Canton, or Guangzhou, in…