Heather Ewing

Heather Ewing is the author of The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian.

Democracy in Three Dimensions?

How the nation’s capital rose from a fetid forest on the backs of slaves

By Heather Ewing | Sunday June 1, 2008

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