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Washington DC’s physical appearance has long been a battleground for competing national ideals and presidential visions

President Donald Trump’s capital redesign follows centuries of debate and discussion about how Washington should look to the world.

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed about the American Revolution’s meaning even as they lay dying

The founding generation in America was not of one mind. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson differed on crucial ideas, but exemplify the capacity for people to disagree and yet work for a common cause.