George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha idaho wall art and the careful forgetting of

and the careful forgetting of what the war had only just settled

Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge

Providence's mill-stack skyline

issued in the summer of 1845 when the old duelist's passing closed the book on two terms that had remade the presidency in his own iron image

Battle of New Orleans 1815 — a commemorative engraving of Jackson's improbable victory on the Chalmette plain

George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha idaho wall art and the careful forgetting ofGeorge Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha. A domestic portrait of the first family at Mount Vernon, the General rendered not as commander but as guardian of his wife's grandchildren the household tableau by which a young republic learned to picture its founder. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional