Grant in Uniform 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The plate renders the Moon

The plate renders the Moon less as a world than as a wreckage — a selenographic elegy for some catastrophe older than scripture

Brigadier General USA

his likeness reissued for a generation that needed Washington's stoic countenance to anchor the noisier politics of Polk's America

Every astragal

374678 captures the mechanical heart of mixology — the moment when bartending stopped being improvisation and started being craft worth patenting

Grant in Uniform 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The plate renders the MoonGrant in Uniform 1898 a posthumous likeness of the general president in his familiar dark blues, issued thirteen years after his death and circulated as the country was already pivoting toward a new war. The portrait belongs to the long Reconstruction afterglow, when Grant's image was being recast from politician to monument. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National