Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century Bloody_Mary_Art A commemorative engraving honoring the

A commemorative engraving honoring the aging Marquis's triumphal return tour

Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive — the Library of Congress

It is a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

where the South commissioned its martyrs in ink and sold them back to itself as devotion

Hobart 1897 — a campaign chromolithograph rigging the Republican ticket to the old metaphor of the Republic as vessel

Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century Bloody_Mary_Art A commemorative engraving honoring theRobert Montgomery Bird 19th Century a portrait of the Philadelphia physician turned playwright whose Jacksonian era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood, prophecy, and the moral fevers of a republic still arguing with 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