Emancipation 1867 gift_for_optician Give Me Liberty or Give

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

looping through their epicycles like clockwork pilgrims

the republic's familiar pantheon arranged shoulder to shoulder as if convened for a single sober daguerreotype of national memory

1881 — a presidential portrait of the New York customs man elevated by Garfield's bullet

A genealogical lithograph in the Victorian funerary mode

Emancipation 1867 gift_for_optician Give Me Liberty or GiveEmancipation 1867. Two years past Appomattox, the engraver's allegory arrives in the long shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment broken shackles and rising figures rendered with the civic earnestness of a republic still arguing, in Congress and in print, what freedom was actually going to mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical