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August 23, 2017By Bryce VanStavern
White House SpecialistIt seems that many people have a natural attraction to or curiosity about small figurines. We see a bust or carved figure and we become curious about whom we’re looking at
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August 18, 2017By Chris Graham
Mellon CuratorSome editors called it the “great obscuration,” but despite the lighthearted superstition, Americans were extremely well informed about the total eclipse of October 19,
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August 17, 2017John Mitchell, Jr. abstained from voting on the appropriation of city money to fund the unveiling parade for the Robert E. Lee monument in 1890. Mitchell, a city alderman for Jackson Ward, a banker, and editor of the African American
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August 16, 2017By Robert Hancock
Senior Curator & Director of CollectionsBoth Jefferson and Varina Davis were voracious readers, so it seems only fitting that novelist, poet, biographer, and historian Sir Walter Scott should
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