In the Dark Days, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885 maine framed map A centennial chromolithograph mustering every

A centennial chromolithograph mustering every state and territorial seal into one heraldic chorus

A commemorative engraving of the cabinet hour itself — Lincoln bent over the document that would rewrite the war's purpose

the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds

George Washington 1877 — a centennial-era likeness of the first president

deliberate work of writing Black achievement into the visible record of the Republic

In the Dark Days, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885 maine framed map A centennial chromolithograph mustering everyIn the Dark Days, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885 a portrait from the general's final year, when bankruptcy and throat cancer pressed him toward the desk where he raced to finish his memoirs, the soldier's discipline turned at last upon the ledger of his own life. 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 publishers