Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Monument Circle in the making

Monument Circle in the making

epaulets and sash arranged with the theatrical confidence of an officer whose march on Chapultepec was already being engraved into the republic's expansionist mythology

A photographic record of Union bivouac along the rail junction that fed Washington its troops and supplies — canvas rows pitched in the first uncertain summer of the war

his likeness fixed in the years when he thundered against secession from the Senate floor and the Union still believed itself salvageable

Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers the Union's martyred and triumphant in a single commemorative tableau

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Monument Circle in the makingDiagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney a draftsman lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible, its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical