Brooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864 — New England Kitchen framed comb patent sinewy men who made the

sinewy men who made the American turf — silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals

Bruce sits in this commemorative lithograph as the first Black senator to serve a full term

Mädler's Alcyone Theory charts a heresy of the heavens: Johann Mädler's conjecture that all creation wheels around Alcyone

A Senate portrait of the Alabaman in the years when Southern men spoke of states' rights with the certainty of scripture

Brooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864 — New England Kitchen framed comb patent sinewy men who made theBrooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864 New England Kitchen. A wartime tableau staged in the heart of the city, where bonneted matrons ladled chowder beside spinning wheels to raise dollars for the Sanitary Commission Puritan nostalgia conscripted into the bloody arithmetic of feeding and bandaging the Union army. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional