America's Welcome to Dewey 1899 art nouveau poster the prelate rendered with the

the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds

A fraternal emblem from the nativist workingmen's lodges that flourished in the shadow of antebellum immigration debates — compass

James Irvin 1847 belongs to the Whig hour of Pennsylvania politics

Goff's Evolution of the American Flag charts the republic's banner across its many alterations — from Grand Union to Betsy Ross to the star-crowded fields of later admissions — a draftsman's genealogy of stripes and stars rendered as a single national lineage

Greeley would lose the election and his life within the same season

America's Welcome to Dewey 1899 art nouveau poster the prelate rendered with theAmerica's Welcome to Dewey 1899 a chromolithograph of the homecoming pageantry staged for the hero of Manila Bay, when the republic, freshly drunk on empire, lined its harbors with bunting to greet the admiral who had answered the question of whether America would step onto the world stage. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical