Birds Eye View of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, 1872 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the exclamation point doing the

the exclamation point doing the rhetorical labor of a nation suddenly conscripting itself into a European war

the General laid out among grieving kin while the young nation rehearsed

the Roman Church mapping its dominion across the northern half of the New World with the patient gravity of an institution outlasting empires

brightest of the Pleiades

Birds Eye View of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, 1872 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the exclamation point doing theBirds Eye View of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, 1872 a cartographer's panorama of the harbor city seven years after surrender, its grid of streets and steeples drawn with the patient optimism of a port learning to face forward, while the scars of Sumter still smoldered just offshore. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical