The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 Lions_Fan_Poster Lee 1865–1871 — the surrendered

Lee 1865–1871 — the surrendered general in his postwar afterlife

Surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House Va April 9th 1865 — a documentary engraving of the moment the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms in a Virginia parlor

eagles and emblems arranged with the didactic confidence of an engraver who believed the nation could be diagrammed

A scene that hums with the particular electricity of a midtown crowd convinced it stands at the center of the modern world

It is a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 Lions_Fan_Poster Lee 1865–1871 — the surrenderedThe Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 assembles Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries into a chromolithograph of Black achievement printed eighteen years after Appomattox a composite portrait insisting, in an age already retreating from Reconstruction's promises, that these faces belonged at the center of the republic's story. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of