First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador prints of Milwaukee The Kentuckian who rode the

The Kentuckian who rode the legend of Tecumseh's death into Van Buren's second chair

Manhattan Rising: A Gilded View From the Park looks south across Central Park's tree line as the young skyline shoulders upward — a Gilded Age tableau in which the Plaza's chimneys and the first towers of Fifth Avenue announce a city rehearsing its own ambition

Progress of the Race

Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country 1893 — a chromolithograph struck for the Columbian quadricentennial

when the Empire State churned the freshwater corridor between Buffalo and Chicago with smokestacks plumed and paddle boxes proud

First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador prints of Milwaukee The Kentuckian who rode theFirst Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador an engraving freighted with the founding myth of the hemisphere, staging the October morning at San Salvador as solemn theater: banner unfurled, knee bent, an ocean's distance compressed into a single ceremonial gesture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical