Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art every brick laid in the

every brick laid in the currency of Gilded Age ascendancy

on the fiction of mutual consent

the Confederate brigades breaking against earthworks where minutes of fighting cost what hours could not redeem

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 — a militia document from the long peace before the storm

the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending

Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art every brick laid in theDeath of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers a battlefield lithograph from the Mexican War, mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its private debts and a Kentucky regiment learned what the rhetoric of expansion actually cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,