Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 skateboarder_art hauling down a Confederate flag

hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House

1862–1864 — a wartime portrait of the gaunt prairie lawyer mid-presidency

The Keepers Vigil Matinicus Rock Lighthouse Architectural Blueprint charts the twin granite towers that once held vigil over twenty-two miles of open Atlantic off the Maine coast — a station so brutally exposed that its keepers measured winters in stranded weeks

Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs to the long iconographic record of the wartime president — one plate among many that fixed his gaunt features into the visual grammar of the Union

casting the fallen president in the devotional posture a grieving republic preferred to remember

Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 skateboarder_art hauling down a Confederate flagDeath of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 a battlefield lithograph mourning the Whig congressman cut down at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its prominent dead and Illinois sent home a name carved in heavier ink than most. 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