General Washington at Christ Church, Easter Morning 1795 vintage office art offering sweet potatoes and cold

offering sweet potatoes and cold water to a redcoat envoy — the kind of partisan legend the young republic loved to retell

Prominent Colored People — a composite portrait gallery of African American leadership assembled in the long decades after Emancipation

each portrait a small tribute to the eisteddfod tradition transplanted into Pennsylvania coal towns and Ohio chapels

the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892

Sam Houston 1852

General Washington at Christ Church, Easter Morning 1795 vintage office art offering sweet potatoes and coldGeneral Washington at Christ Church, Easter Morning 1795 a devotional tableau of the President at worship in Philadelphia, rendered in the reverent engraver's hand that turned the first executive into something between citizen and saint, his bowed head a quiet argument that the new republic could kneel without bending. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National