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• Introduction: Where Oh Where Should the Capital Be?

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• Unbuilt White Houses of the 19th Century

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• The President's Park

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• In a White House Passageway

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• Restoring the Original White House Stone

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• Did Slaves Build the White House?

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• The White House as Home and Symbol

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