Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century nautical wall art The image carries the careful

The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President

every column a quiet argument that knowledge belongs to the public

New York Harbor — Presented to the United States by Citizens of France

his likeness rendered in the careful gravity reserved for those who carried Manifest Destiny's confidence and its rot in equal measure

23rd Street — a vintage Manhattan tableau lingering at the crossroads where Broadway grazes the Flatiron's prow

Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century nautical wall art The image carries the carefulBrigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century the commander who carried the Union into the disaster at Bull Run, rendered here in the formal portraiture of a man whose epaulets outlasted his reputation, the war's first burdened general staring back across the long ledger of blame. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical