Detail of a proof plate for a 1923 postage stamp featuring the distinctive statue atop the Capitol dome. The price of Freedom? $5 — the equivalent of about $75 in today's money.
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And, for other August Events:
August Scholars Series
All of the following webinars will start at noon EDT.
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Tuesday, August 4
Colleen Shogan
The author of Larceny at the Library discusses her latest, a quintessentially D.C. mystery with settings including the D.C. Public Library, the National Portrait Gallery, Ford’s Theatre, and the Library of Congress.
A reception at the Library of Congress, where an exhibit featuring everything Abraham Lincoln had in his pockets the night he was assassinated is about to open, kicks off Shogan’s workmanlike sixth Washington, D.C., mystery (after 2018’s K Street Killing). The following morning, library staffer Doug Hollingsworth discovers the bludgeoned corpse of assistant librarian Gustav Gaffney next to a rifled cache of Lincoln artifacts. The Librarian of Congress asks Doug’s wife, Kit Marshall, a Congressional chief of staff with a reputation as an amateur sleuth, to investigate. Doug is a suspect, but Kit learns that many people disliked Gaffney, including a library donor, a rare book specialist, and a congressman. In the end, the case hinges on figuring out whose alibis are trustworthy. Meanwhile, Kit and friends sample the capital’s best restaurants and ogle the Library of Congress’s architectural splendor. Fans of light traditional mysteries will be amused. Agent: Dawn Dowdle, Blue Ridge Literary. (July)
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Wednesday, August 12
Stephen West
“Two Amendments, One Fraught History: Race, Sex, and the Right to Vote in the 15th and 19th Amendments, 1870-1920”
Rescheduled from April 1
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Wednesday, August 19
Derek Gray
Gray will examine the history of the DC branch of the NAACP, particularly its activism against institutional racism in Congress from the 1910s to the 1930s and the 1934 sit-in demonstrations against Capitol Hill restaurants.
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