James Madison 1897 large vintage map A battle lithograph from Taylor's

A battle lithograph from Taylor's Mexican campaign

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

It is less a diagram than a Ptolemaic prayer

Times — a scene drawn from the electric crossroads where Broadway bends into Seventh

soft-money Democrat — stood for re-election on the rag currency question that split Ohio down its ledger lines

James Madison 1897 large vintage map A battle lithograph from Taylor'sJames Madison 1897 a late century commemorative likeness of the fourth president, issued long after his death, when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity. Madison's spectacled gravity, reprinted for a generation that had survived its civil war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,