Honor to the Brave 1865 old New Orleans map looping inside Earth's orbit on

looping inside Earth's orbit on a Victorian plate where epicycles read less like geometry and more like choreography

Mary Ball Washington the Mother of George Washington 1912 — a commemorative portrait issued in the long afterglow of Founding-era reverence

Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 — a documentary engraving of the amphibious assault that sealed Wilmington's harbor and strangled the last Confederate lifeline to the sea

photographed at the armory that housed their saddles

Honor to the Brave 1865 old New Orleans map looping inside Earth's orbit onHonor to the Brave 1865 a commemorative lithograph struck in the year the guns finally fell silent, its title borrowing the language of mourning ribbons and regimental colors. The phrase belongs to that exhausted spring when the Union counted its dead and tried to render their sacrifice into something the living could carry. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National