Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century vintage outdoor charged with steadying Jackson's hard-money

charged with steadying Jackson's hard-money inheritance as banks across the republic began to fold beneath their own paper

Burns Monument

and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late-century lodge culture

1896 preserves the thunderclap that vaulted William Jennings Bryan onto the Democratic ticket — the Cross of Gold oration set in cold type

when veterans' associations were busy carving granite and ink alike into the long elegy of remembrance

Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century vintage outdoor charged with steadying Jackson's hard-moneyLieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century a portrait of the Union's quiet butcher, rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington. The likeness carries the weight of a man who fought by arithmetic, willing to spend what the ledger demanded to end the war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical