5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card two old Whigs offering Union

two old Whigs offering Union and Constitution as a last incantation against the storm already gathering at Charleston and Montgomery

when American rifles answered Filipino independence with the cold arithmetic of empire across the Pasig suburbs

rendered here in the careful gravity of a man briefly hailed as a hero and quietly rebuked as a diplomat

where Giants fans once climbed the rocks above Eighth Avenue to watch McGraw's nine for free — a Harlem ballyard rendered in the reverent tones owed to a true civic shrine

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto

5 Men 1916 pennsylvania card two old Whigs offering Union5 Men 1916 a press photograph of five figures squared to the lens on the eve of mobilization, their stillness carrying the particular weight of a republic about to be conscripted into a war it had spent three years watching from across the Atlantic. 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 publishers