the gunboats arrayed in a deliberate crescent that turned a muddy backwater into the Union's first great western victory
Capture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph of February 1862
retouched for a Gilded Age audience
Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the Treasury's first architect in the careful linework reserved for men whose ideas outlived their duels — the West Indian orphan who argued a national bank into being and signed his Federalist essays with the cool nerve of someone who knew the republic's ledgers would decide its fate
Commissary Department Encampment of the Massachusetts 6th Regiment of Volunteers — a documentary view of the regiment that drew first Union blood in the Baltimore riots
A View of the Birth Place of Robert Fulton, Lancaster County, State of Pennsylvania vintage atomizer art the gunboats arrayed in aA View of the Birth Place of Robert Fulton, Lancaster County, State of Pennsylvania a quiet pilgrimage rendered in line and shadow, the modest farmhouse where the steamboat's inventor drew his first breath, decades before the Clermont churned the Hudson into the future. 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