Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Hail, Columbia

"Thanks to these and other women who marched, women's rights in America were secured (even if they remain always and ever contested). A century later, Columbia looks like a lady who knows how to lean in. Enough time has passed, it seems, that we might consider reviving her spirit, and returning her to the pantheon of America characters for the years to come."

Garance Franke-Ruta at The Atlantic looks back at a neglected symbol of America.

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