Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea and the slow-burning quarrel over

and the slow-burning quarrel over the West

over what its fleet and its Union were for

rendered as a keepsake broadside for a defeated South that would spend the next century reading and rereading its measured cadences as scripture

Brooklyn Sanitary Fair 1864: Interior View of the Academy of Music as Seen From the Dress Circle renders the war's home-front theater in tiered detail — bunting

Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea and the slow-burning quarrel overCentennial 17761876. A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year, issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested, broken, and asked to mean something again. 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