Emancipation 1867 gift_for_optician 1881 — a presidential portrait

1881 — a presidential portrait of the New York customs man elevated by Garfield's bullet

where the Douglas and Stanton hospitals took in the maimed harvest of Grant's Overland Campaign

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

pairing the Ohio governor with his New York running mate on the eve of the most contested election the young republic had yet survived

looping through their epicycles like clockwork pilgrims

Emancipation 1867 gift_for_optician 1881 — a presidential portraitEmancipation 1867. Two years past Appomattox, the engraver's allegory arrives in the long shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment broken shackles and rising figures rendered with the civic earnestness of a republic still arguing, in Congress and in print, what freedom was actually going to mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical