From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 Victoria_BC_canvas this is the founding document

this is the founding document of the United States — the words Jefferson wrote

sent north to argue Florida's case in the marble chambers of a capital that regarded the territory as both prize and problem

Walt Whitman 19th Century — a portrait of the bard who walked the army hospitals with notebook in hand

and rain-slick pavement glowing under the incandescent canopy that earned Forty-Second Street its luminous nickname

rendered with the formal gravity owed to a Gilded Age executive who inherited the office in mourning and surprised the republic by governing better than it expected

From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 Victoria_BC_canvas this is the founding documentFrom the Plantation to the Senate 1883 traces an arc no antebellum cartographer could have charted a Reconstruction era print honoring the improbable distance between the cotton row and the chamber floor, drawn in the cautious optimism of a country still learning what its amendments meant. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical