James Madison 1897 large vintage map issued seventy years after his

issued seventy years after his death by a republic still arguing over what he meant

Burning of the Library of Congress 1892 — a press engraving of the night flame found the nation's bookshelves

banners to insist that the long shadow of Sumter and Appomattox still belonged to them

and Ocean Boulevard at high season

James Madison 1897 large vintage map issued seventy years after hisJames Madison 1897 a late century commemorative likeness of the fourth president, issued long after his death, when the Gilded Age had a habit of resurrecting Founders to anchor a republic uncertain of its own continuity. Madison's spectacled gravity, reprinted for a generation that had survived its civil war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,