The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States large new york map The Sun's Violent Breath 1892

The Sun's Violent Breath 1892 Solar Prominence Study renders the spectroscopist's terrifying glimpse — those tongues of incandescent hydrogen leaping a hundred thousand miles from the limb

Grant 1866 — a portrait of the general one year after Appomattox

The Owen Cigarette Patent — a Study in Smoke and Industry captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

The First Centennial Record of the United States of America 1876 arrives a hundred years after the signatures dried in Philadelphia

arranged like a civic catechism

The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States large new york map The Sun's Violent Breath 1892The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States a retrospective lithograph fixing its gaze on the first spark, the moment Fort Sumter's harbor turned from rumor to artillery. The print labors to mark a precise origin for a war whose roots ran far deeper than any single shot. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and