America 250

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A mother looks after her children in front of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

What does it mean to be American? 250 years later, questions still remain. Is the United States a "particular people, and a particular set of beliefs"? Is being American about the promise that all people are created equal? This collection looks at how we experience the public through spaces, faces, identities, and everything in between, to think about this question.