Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Ravens_Poster and dates marshaled to insist

and dates marshaled to insist that emancipation was not an ending but a ledger still being kept

his tenure at the War Department a footnote in the bruised politics of a presidency without a party

Greeting to America 19th Century — an engraved salutation from the long American century

even as the Republic it pictured was already quarreling over Texas

The Columbus Genealogical Tree of the World's Columbian Exposition

Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Ravens_Poster and dates marshaled to insistHenry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 a congressional portrait of the Accomack firebrand whose tongue could lash a chamber into silence, rendered in the formal lithographic hand reserved for men the Capitol had learned to fear and quote in equal measure. 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 lithographic