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slate's 10th anniversary: June 1996 - June 2006.

How Good Is the Washington Monument?Our critic takes a walk through the Washington Mall.

By Witold Rybczynski
Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006, at 6:38 AM ET

Slate turns 10 this week, and to celebrate the anniversary, we've dug into the archives and resurrected a few favorite pieces. Some of the pieces come from The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology, which was published this month. Others, including this piece, we chose because they highlight what Slate can do as an online magazine that print magazines, newspapers, television, and radio can't. These pieces mix media, promote interactivity, show off the conversational immediacy of the Web, or otherwise take advantage of the medium. You can see a list of all the republished pieces, as well as everything else related to the anniversary, here. You can buy The Best of Slate here.

Listen to Witold Rybczynski's audio tour of D.C.'s memorials here.

Click here to read a slide-show essay about the memorials of Washington, D.C.


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