Washington D.C.

Washington National Mall Mystery: The Philip Reid Time Capsule

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<div>A <strong>Yale historian</strong> arrives in Washington with a single lead: a mysterious email pointing to a <strong>time capsule</strong> hidden somewhere on the Capitol grounds.</div><div><br></div><div>The trail follows <strong>Philip Reid</strong>, an enslaved man who helped raise the <strong>Statue of Freedom</strong> atop the Capitol dome in 1863, and then disappeared from the historical record entirely.</div><div><br></div><div>Walk through the <strong>U.S. Capitol</strong>, the <strong>Library of Congress</strong>, the <strong>Botanic Garden</strong>, and a dozen landmarks woven into the history of American democracy and the people it failed. The answer you find at the end will be more personal than you expected.</div>

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