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People who want to understand how Congress actually works should see where it happens; the building itself, all those corridors and chambers, tells you things no civics class can.
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A Smithsonian outpost devoted to the actual histories of people in this region—not the marble-monument versions. Go if you want to understand what happened to the neighborhoods where Washingtonians actually live.
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