George Washington took the Oath of Office at Wall and Broad streets, at the site of Federal Hall. After the Declaration of Independence was read in NYC for the first time, the crowd tore down a statue ...

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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...