President Lincoln at Home Reading the Scriptures to His Wife and Son 1865 Raiders_Print 1815 (1845)

1815 (1845)

and lantern-room sightline was drawn against the certainty that the shoals would try to take it back

and large-letter greetings filled with saguaro silhouettes

and any space that honors the country's most consequential reckoning

President Lincoln at Home Reading the Scriptures to His Wife and Son 1865 Raiders_Print 1815 (1845)President Lincoln at Home Reading the Scriptures to His Wife and Son 1865 a domestic lithograph offered to a grieving nation in the year of his murder, casting the wartime president as a quiet patriarch with Mary and Tad gathered around the open Bible. The parlor here is a balm; the country outside it, still bleeding. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National