Honor to the Brave 1865 old New Orleans map Mary Ball Washington the Mother

Mary Ball Washington the Mother of George Washington 1912 — a commemorative portrait issued in the long afterglow of Founding-era reverence

a craft brewery's tasting room

epaulets and sash rendered with the swagger of an army convinced Manifest Destiny could be settled by bayonet

A chromolithograph in love with its own engineering — Roebling's cathedral of cable and granite stitched across the river the year it opened

Eleventh President of the United States

Honor to the Brave 1865 old New Orleans map Mary Ball Washington the MotherHonor to the Brave 1865 a commemorative lithograph struck in the year the guns finally fell silent, its title borrowing the language of mourning ribbons and regimental colors. The phrase belongs to that exhausted spring when the Union counted its dead and tried to render their sacrifice into something the living could carry. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National