James Madison 1897 large vintage map Times — a scene drawn

Times — a scene drawn from the electric crossroads where Broadway bends into Seventh

banners to insist that the long shadow of Sumter and Appomattox still belonged to them

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

issued seventy years after his death by a republic still arguing over what he meant

It is less a diagram than a Ptolemaic prayer

James Madison 1897 large vintage map Times — a scene drawnJames Madison 1897 a late century commemorative likeness of the fourth president, issued long after his death, when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity. Madison's spectacled gravity, reprinted for a generation that had survived its civil war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,