The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC when the Confederacy's chief soldier

when the Confederacy's chief soldier became a college president and a marble idea forming itself in real time

The Lunar Pull a Study of Celestial Forces and Earthly Waters — a Victorian selenographic plate that traces the silver tether between moon and tide

City of New Orleans Vintage Art from Bella Frye

and rose gardens spilling across Washington Park — a city of lumber barons and rain-slick streetcars cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the rail-and-roses era

The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC when the Confederacy's chief soldierThe Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 a commemorative lithograph issued in the first uneasy summer after Appomattox, cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood, three stars on his shoulder, as the Republic's quiet inheritor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National