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Told makes it easy to quickly get an idea of what was debated and decided in washington. Scroll through and spend a few minutes on cspans points of interests. Okay. Welcome to class today. How is everybody doing . So this is history outside, a field school and finding america, so all semester weve been going to different places around campus and trying to think about what we see, how the landscape impacts where we are think about where we are. So those Big Questions for the semester are, where emily . Whats the next one that where mi . We got where am i . What happened here . And how do i fit into that now quick so we will do that today to think about where mi, what happened here, and how do i fit into it. So to set this up in the longterm, im going to pull a quote from a book called ecclesiastes from the old testament, and ill read it so that dont mess it up, although there are a lot of different versions of it. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not yet full. To the plac
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