Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 beer lover art A View of the Birth

A View of the Birth Place of Robert Fulton

when the accidental president and his contemporaries quarreled over the terms of a reunited republic — impeachment looming

The Lunar Pull a Study of Celestial Forces and Earthly Waters — a Victorian selenographic plate that traces the silver tether between moon and tide

lined its harbors with bunting to greet the admiral who had answered the question of whether America would step onto the world stage

Portrait of John Marshall Holding a Book After a Painting by Henry Inman

Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 beer lover art A View of the BirthColumbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers the Union's martyred and triumphant in a single commemorative tableau, printed in the hush that followed Appomattox a lithograph that reads like a roll call whispered by the republic to itself, half elegy and half exhalation. 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