First Landing at Gorahama 1856 Framed_MT_Bank VA — a lithograph rendering

VA — a lithograph rendering the October 1861 disaster on the Potomac bluffs

The First Centennial Record of the United States of America 1876 arrives a hundred years after the signatures dried in Philadelphia

when the country was hollowed by Depression and the new president told a frightened nation that fear itself was the enemy worth naming

signed in the exhausted cadence of a man who believed the war's wounds could still be talked closed

La Fayette Barracks Baltimore Md 1862

First Landing at Gorahama 1856 Framed_MT_Bank VA — a lithograph renderingFirst Landing at Gorahama 1856 documents an American footfall on Japanese soil in the wake of Perry's black ships, when the republic's reach across the Pacific was still a fresh and audacious thing. The scene carries the quiet swagger of Manifest Destiny extended to saltwater a treaty port rendered as overture rather than conquest. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the