Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art mid-term and mid-century

mid-term and mid-century

the engraving renders that peculiar hush of generals deciding where men will fall by morning

the Negro League broadsides

when civic and sacred ritual alike were being redrawn for a reunified republic

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the quiet hour before Santa Anna's columns appeared in the pass

Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art mid-term and mid-centuryHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,