Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print drawn in the devotional idiom

drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy

A late-century synoptic table that flattens a century of American incident into columns and crosshatched epochs — the Gilded Age's faith that the republic's story could be tabulated

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

lifeboats foundering in the middle distance — a Currier print that made the catastrophe a household horror

Oct 5th 1813 (1841) — a documentary engraving issued nearly three decades after the Shawnee confederacy collapsed in the Ontario mud

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print drawn in the devotional idiomEncampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox, when the citizen soldier had become ceremonial again, the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical