Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition casting the wartime president as

casting the wartime president as a quiet patriarch with Mary and Tad gathered around the open Bible

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre

the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture

engraved here in the long aftermath of the war his words had tried to forestall

William Henry Harrison 1840 — a campaign portrait of the log-cabin candidate

Birds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 grit_definition casting the wartime president asBirds Eye View of Philadelphia 1875 surveys the Quaker City a year before the Centennial, its grid of row houses and church spires drawn from an imagined altitude where the Delaware bends and Fairmount sprawls a lithographer's claim that the republic's first capital had grown into something worth measuring from above. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National