John Caldwell Calhoun 1852 Tacoma_Canvas his bones carried ashore as

his bones carried ashore as the republic that outlived him sent its own sons into the trenches of France

the Equitable Building's early skyline

sober line of antebellum statecraft as the Union strained against its own expansion

the bookish strategist suddenly handed the whole bleeding Union map

John Caldwell Calhoun 1852 Tacoma_Canvas his bones carried ashore asJohn Caldwell Calhoun 1852 a posthumous portrait of South Carolina's gaunt prophet of nullification, his hollow gaze fixed past the viewer toward a Union he spent his life threatening to dissolve. Issued two years after his death, the lithograph carries the unsettled hush of a republic still arguing with his ghost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,