when fire swept the cotton-laden decks and pitched 139 souls into the icy Sound
Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President 1865 arrives draped in the heavy black crepe of April
A documentary engraving of Jeb Stuart's audacious 150-mile circuit around the Army of the Potomac — a cavalry impertinence rendered in lines that still carry the dust of Virginia roads and the embarrassment of a Union command caught flat-footed
the Republic addressing its own first century with the careful sentiment of a nation still bandaging the wounds of the war just past
In the Hope That the American People May Soon Be Not Merely United but Reconciled — I Am Yours
Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 18th 1847 old Ontario print when fire swept the cotton-ladenBattle of Cerro Gordo, April 18th 1847 a documentary engraving of Scott's mountain assault on Santa Anna's batteries, rendered with the swaggering certainty of a republic convinced its road to Mexico City was also the road to its destiny. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives,