Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Size:18x24 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

Cathedral of Dreams - The Roxy Theatre conjures the gilded excess of Samuel Rothafel's 1927 movie palace on Seventh Avenue

19th Century — a portrait of the rail-splitter turned wartime executive

almost ecclesiastical — a president translated

when his diocese had become the spiritual home of immigrant battalions and his pulpit a counterweight to draft-riot fury

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Size:18x24 The Sun's Violent Breath 1892Abraham Lincoln 1861 1865 bookends a presidency by its terrible arithmetic the year of Sumter to the year of Ford's Theatre, four bracketed seasons in which a prairie lawyer became the unwilling steward of a republic learning, in blood, what its own founding sentences meant. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the