Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Gen Robert E Lee at

Gen Robert E Lee at Fredericksburg Dec 13 1862 — the commander observing from Marye's Heights as wave after Union wave broke against the stone wall below

when Lincoln was less a man than the country's preferred way of remembering itself

its title borrowing the language of mourning ribbons and regimental colors

The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic

The Cape Blanco Light Station Blueprint Guardian of the Oregon Coast reads as a draftsman's reckoning with the westernmost edge of the continent — a brick conical tower drawn to withstand the gales that batter that basalt headland

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Gen Robert E Lee atCornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender an engraving of the courier's ride from Yorktown, the moment a young aide de camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on, delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical