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The nation’s capital has innumerable monuments and commemorative markers to a wide variety of important (and perhaps not so important) public figures. Artists, poets, scientists, politicians, statesmen, and diplomats, from the famous to the obscure, have been recognized with a statue or marker in a city that steeps itself in them. In fact, Washington, DC, might rank among the first cities of the world in commemorative statues and monuments.
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Robyn, R. (2016). Erasure of Public Memory: The Strange Case of Tom Paine in Washington, DC. In: Cleary, S., Stabell, I.L. (eds) New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137589996_13
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