The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC The Lunar Pull a Study

The Lunar Pull a Study of Celestial Forces and Earthly Waters — a Victorian selenographic plate that traces the silver tether between moon and tide

and the original notations are preserved in the print

The Underground Passage at City Hall — a subterranean tableau from the IRT's earliest years

when secession was named usurpation and every farm boy who answered the call was inscribed into the ledger of a republic suddenly arguing with itself in rifle-fire

Arkansas Little Rock rises from the south bank of the Arkansas River

The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC The Lunar Pull a StudyThe Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 a commemorative lithograph issued in the first uneasy summer after Appomattox, cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood, three stars on his shoulder, as the Republic's quiet inheritor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National