freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction
Robert Edward Lee 1877 — a posthumous likeness of the Confederate general issued seven years after his death at Lexington
caught in the brief calm before Sarajevo — the Princeton academic newly installed in the White House
The Celestial Wheel of Fate Antique Zodiacal Chart turns the heavens into a great revolving oracle
the weight of a republic still inventing its own iconography
John Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame freshly emerged from the CompromiseJohn Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 the Illinois politician turned soldier, photographed in the brass and braid of his commission the year he marched toward Fort Donelson and Shiloh, ambition stitched into every button of a uniform he had argued his way into wearing. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,