Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 huge map of alaska an Independence Day christening of

an Independence Day christening of steel and ambition that announced the river city's resurrection nine years after Appomattox

kept Britain at bay

Our Presidents 1789-1914 — a composite portrait gallery marching from Washington's powdered restraint to Wilson's scholarly austerity

George Washington

his likeness reissued at the very moment Wall Street was learning the scale of its own ambitions

Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 huge map of alaska an Independence Day christening ofDeath of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 a mourning lithograph issued in the raw hours after Ford's Theatre, when ink could scarcely keep pace with grief. The image fixes the deathbed at the Petersen House, that narrow back room where a republic, having just won itself, was made to begin again without him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional