Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home Key_West_canvas rendered in the grave engraver's

rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men who had seen Shiloh and the Wilderness — the quiet weight of a soldier asked to govern the country he had only just finished holding together

the Ranger captain whose death in a Mexican plaza became one of those small

and white clapboard meetinghouses standing watch over the Green Mountains

the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together — popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter

The Iron Gateway Brooklyn Bridge Crossing frames Roebling's cathedral of cable and stone from the pedestrian promenade — that vaulted Gothic arch swallowing the foot traffic of a working city

Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home Key_West_canvas rendered in the grave engraver'sAdmiral George Dewey and Mrs. Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home the hero of Manila Bay photographed in the domestic register, the conqueror of the Spanish fleet rendered, improbably, as a husband in his own parlor. Empire wore a velvet coat that season, and the press obliged. 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