John Randolph of Roanoke 1876 Gift_for_Raiders_Fan his Mexican War laurels burnished

his Mexican War laurels burnished into the iconography of a Union already cracking beneath the rhetoric of compromise

American Methodism 19th Century — a documentary engraving of circuit riders and camp meetings

his features softened by half a century of national mythmaking

The Michigan senator rendered in the year he resigned his seat to chase the war with Mexico — a portrait of Jacksonian ambition wearing epaulets

the mother's shadow assembled into national scripture

John Randolph of Roanoke 1876 Gift_for_Raiders_Fan his Mexican War laurels burnishedJohn Randolph of Roanoke 1876 a posthumous engraving of the acid tongued Virginia orator, issued in the centennial year when the Republic was busy reconciling itself to its quarrelsome founders. Randolph's gaunt profile returns here as relic, the states' rights firebrand recast as gentleman antiquity. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional