Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 beer lover art 19th Century — an engraved

19th Century — an engraved portrait of the Illinois senator whose Jacksonian loyalties carried him from the state bench to the floor of the U

lined its harbors with bunting to greet the admiral who had answered the question of whether America would step onto the world stage

The Hatteras Lantern Room Blueprint — Guardian of the Graveyard of the Atlantic drafted for the tallest brick sentinel on the American coast

when the accidental president and his contemporaries quarreled over the terms of a reunited republic — impeachment looming

Love Point Lighthouse Blueprint Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Engineering Plans of 1871 drawn at the moment Kent Island's northern shoal demanded a screw-pile cottage rather than a masonry tower — the draftsman's hand traces hexagonal floor framing

Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 beer lover art 19th Century — an engravedColumbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers the Union's martyred and triumphant in a single commemorative tableau, printed in the hush that followed Appomattox a lithograph that reads like a roll call whispered by the republic to itself, half elegy and half exhalation. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic