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The Carter G. Woodson Home reopens in Shaw, free to visit
The historic Carter G. Woodson Home in Washington's Shaw neighborhood has reopened after a full restoration. Visits are free.
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The Carter G. Woodson Home in Shaw has reopened after a full restoration, Washingtonian reported. Visits to the national historic site in Washington are free.
The reopening is the end of that repair work, not a new chapter of Woodson's writing. The house is open again for people who want to walk through the place where he lived.
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Carter G. Woodson was a historian who studied Black history and pushed schools to teach it. His house in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., is a national historic site. It closed for a full restoration, which means the building was repaired so people can visit it again. Washingtonian reported that the home has reopened and that visits are free. A historic house is not a museum you have to pay to enter in this case. The news is that the doors are open again after the work, in the neighborhood where Woodson lived.
- Why would a person's house be kept as a place the public can visit?
- What can you learn in a house that you cannot learn from a textbook alone?
- Why does it matter that the visit is free?
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