Gen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner 1840 illinois postcard Give Me Liberty or Give

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

A posthumous engraving of the first president

his likeness circulated through immigrant regiments who marched under the rallying cry "I fights mit Sigel" toward the bloodied fields of Pea Ridge and New Market

The Expired Planet Victorian Lunar Death Portrait renders the Moon as a corpse on a slab — a selenographic study from the age when astronomers mapped lunar craters with the gravity of coroners

issued in the same season Philadelphia opened its great Exhibition and the country tried

Gen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner 1840 illinois postcard Give Me Liberty or GiveGen Marion in His Swamp Encampment Inviting a British Officer to Dinner, 1840. A documentary engraving of the Swamp Fox at his rough Carolina table, offering sweet potatoes and cold water to a redcoat envoy the kind of partisan legend the young republic loved to retell, half tactics, half parable. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical