The National Gallery of Eminent Americans, 19th Century Exploria_Poster An ecclesiastical portrait of the

An ecclesiastical portrait of the Black American clergyman who carried his miter to Port-au-Prince

a broadside that turned one man's rendition into the abolitionist North's sharpest indictment of the Slave Act

These are linen views of a capital rebuilt from Sherman's ashes — magnolia-shaded

The Gilded Grid: Manhattan's Veins of Commerce and Shadow traces the island's nervous system in ink — avenues swollen with capital

President Lincoln and Secretary Seward Signing the Proclamation of Freedom

The National Gallery of Eminent Americans, 19th Century Exploria_Poster An ecclesiastical portrait of theThe National Gallery of Eminent Americans, 19th Century assembles the century's statesmen, generals, and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows, as if greatness could be cataloged like specimens under glass. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical