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You can check out the New York Tribune from 100 years ago today at the Library of Congress

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Walt Whitman seemed fascinated by it. The Statue of Freedom’s top-most section was put into place in the early days of December 1863. Whitman’s “Genius of Liberty” was on top of the Capitol Dome. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December … Continue reading

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