Want to learn about Arlington Cemetery?

March 13, 2013

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Welcome to obscure Washington, D.C.

March 12, 2013

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Michael W. Kauffman is author of "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies." Here he stands on a tennis court at Fort McNair, the site of the Lincoln conspirators' hanging.

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Learn more about the Washington Monument

March 12, 2013

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Learn more about the National Mall in Washington D.C

March 12, 2013

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Learn more about Union Station in Washington D.C.

March 12, 2013

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Learn more about Dunkirk

February 1, 2013

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10 inaugural controversies from history

January 22, 2013

http://www.politico.com/gallery/2013/01/10-inaugural-controversies-from-history/000731-010414.html

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Obama got tongue-tied while taking his first oath of office in January 2009, stumbling over his words after Chief Justice John Roberts, who swore him in, had said a word out of sequence. Just to be safe, Obama retook the oath a few days later, but the conspiracy theorists had already sunk their teeth in.

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Ever hear of the Hindenburg?

December 11, 2012

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Cemetary Secrets

December 6, 2012

burials

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Gravesites tell the stories of the dead and the people who mourned them. Learn about cemetery archaeology and preservation with Jolene Smith and Joanna Green from the VA Department of Historic Resources.

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The Bitter History of Elections

December 6, 2012

Elections

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Political parties were new, the losers became Vice Presidents, and negative campaigning was finding its feet in the election of 1796. Professor Jack Lynch has the history.

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Banning football?

December 5, 2012

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Are we getting dumber??

December 5, 2012

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Are we wasting food?

December 5, 2012

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Killing bin Laden

November 7, 2012

For the first time, a first-hand account of the raid that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist from one of the Navy SEALS who pulled the trigger. Scott Pelley interviews “Mark Owen,” a former SEAL who was in the room when Osama bin Laden died from American bullets, in an exclusive interview.

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