Minding the GAPE – August 2023
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Minding the GAPE – August 2023

By Kym MacEwan

Wildfires, Wild West shows, traveling circuses, brewing beer, beating heat waves, the lottery, and much more.

Excavating the Colonial War on D.C. Alleys in the Making of Imperial Washington
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By Brendan Hornbostel

Simultaneously a symbol for the nation and a longtime major Black city without political representation, Washington, D.C., has appeared to many—in the words of blues poet Gil Scott-Heron—as “a ball of contradictions” between affluent white political elites “who come and go” and the predominantly Black poor and working-class “who’ve got to stay.” Perhaps nowhere is this entanglement better illustrated than the McMillan Plan’s Progressive Era redesign of “Imperial Washington” made possible by the racialized slum clearance of the Metropolitan Police Department’s “war on alleys” at the turn of the twentieth century.

Minding the GAPE – July 2023
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By Kym MacEwan

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Minding the GAPE – June 2023
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Minding the GAPE – June 2023

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