A Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 confederate art The scene captures that strange

The scene captures that strange March morning when wooden navies became obsolete and every shell

A late-life portrait of the Boston physician-poet in his eighty-fifth year

the adjective that would follow him to Gettysburg: superb

hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams

an engraving from the age when an astronomer's hand still trembled between equation and prayer

A Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 confederate art The scene captures that strangeA Presidential Reception in 1789 by General and Mrs. Washington, 1876 a Centennial year chromolithograph that reaches backward across nearly a hundred years to imagine the inaugural drawing room, the new republic learning its manners as Martha receives guests beside a general still becoming a president. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional