Robert W. Righter

Feb 7, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Amelia Roth-Dishy |Robert W. Righter |Richard S. Slotkin |William Cronon

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Each year, more than 25 million visitors descend on the National Mall, according to the National Park Service. Fanning out, they encounter a circuit of imposing marble monuments dedicated to high-profile former presidents: Abraham Lincoln to the west, Thomas Jefferson to the south, and George Washington—abstractly rendered as a towering obelisk—at the center of this grassy axis.