the opening land action of an empire announcing itself in tropical heat
the unglamorous arithmetic by which an army is fed before it is bled
Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 — a postwar lithograph that returns to the room where Jefferson
a republic newly flush with overseas territories listening upward
as if the engraver were charting not the heavens but the failures of those who dared to read them
A Nation's Pride, A Nation's Wealth 1884 Broncos_Fan_Gift the opening land action ofA Nation's Pride, A Nation's Wealth 1884 a Gilded Age allegorical print in the high civic style, hymning the post war republic's bounty in the year Cleveland edged Blaine, when the country was still tallying what it had survived and what it had made of itself. 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