The concept

Washington, DC (District of Columbia) is the US capital, inaugurated in 1800 after many fierce disputes between the lords of the southern and northern states. Located on the banks of the Potomac River, it was named after George Washington, the first American president and also who had it built. In 1860 broke out the Civil War, which fiercely opposed the pro-slavery southerners and the Northerners against, making the capital highly vulnerable, especially after Abraham Lincoln signed in 1862 the abolition of slavery. The sixteenth and one of the most beloved presidents of history, a man who defined the meaning of a democratic government as "of the people, by the people and for the people", was murdered in April
1865.

In 1877 the Washington Post was born. will be bought in 1933 by Eugene Meyer, a Republican Jewish millionaire, promising to turn it into a public service vehicle. In 1946 he named Phil Graham, married to his daughter Katharine, editor of the Post. In 1959, following the suicide of her husband, Katharine Graham will take command of the newspaper which, under her leadership, revealed the Watergate case, leading to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. Currently owned by Jeff Bezos, the newspaper continues to have a brilliant subtitle: "Democracy dies in darkness".

by Paula Ribeiro