Explosion of the Maine 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and Saturn are bound in

and Saturn are bound in elliptical obedience

with grim arithmetic

the exclamation point doing the rhetorical labor of a nation suddenly conscripting itself into a European war

the architecture of Reconstruction itself

fixed here in the iron composure that line demanded

Explosion of the Maine 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame and Saturn are bound inExplosion of the Maine 1898 the Havana Harbor catastrophe rendered in the urgent linework of the illustrated press, smoke and shattered hull pitched against a night sky that would, within weeks, become a battle cry. Here is the spark itself, the moment empire found its pretext. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the