United Americans of the State of New York 1848 Jacksonville_print useful martyrdoms by which Manifest

useful martyrdoms by which Manifest Destiny bought its own mythology

weathered character that suits the document's age

gathering the martyred president among the uniformed architects of Union victory — an exercise in remembrance staged for a country still translating its grief into iconography

The Baeppler Beer Cooler Patent a Study in Victorian Temperance and Temptation captures one of those workhorse innovations that quietly defined how a glass of beer got from cellar to tap — a piece of equipment whose elegance was invisible to the drinker

when the office still wore the gravitas of the founders and the swagger of continental ambition

United Americans of the State of New York 1848 Jacksonville_print useful martyrdoms by which ManifestUnited Americans of the State of New York 1848 a nativist banner from the year of revolutions abroad and Free Soil agitation at home, when the Empire State's wards were already rehearsing the quarrels over immigration and loyalty that would define the coming decade. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic