Industrial Exposition Louisville 1872 Size:36x24 Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux

Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato

Battle of Allatoona Pass 1887 — a commemorative engraving rendered more than two decades after the Georgia ridge ran red

the republic's most restless denomination charting itself across a century of revivals

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 — a documentary photograph from the heights above Chattanooga

when the Union sloop's victory over the Confederate raider had hardened from naval dispatch into national memory

Industrial Exposition Louisville 1872 Size:36x24 Execution of the Thirty-Eight SiouxIndustrial Exposition Louisville 1872 a chromolithographic herald of the Ohio River city's bid for industrial standing, all soaring halls and machine age optimism rendered in the confident strokes of a South still scrubbing off the soot of war and reaching, decisively, for capital. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and