Death of President Lincoln at Washington DC, April 15th 1865 — The Nation's Martyr World map print A campaign-era portrait lithograph of

A campaign-era portrait lithograph of the Tennessee Democrat at the high tide of his ambitions — the year he provoked war with Mexico and stared down Britain over Oregon

where Hooker and Longstreet traded volleys among the redoubts and the road to Richmond first revealed how dearly it would be paid for

The Temple of Fortune: Wall Street's Gilded Altar renders the Stock Exchange as a Greco-Roman shrine to capital — pediment

A natural fit for home bars

Death of President Lincoln at Washington DC, April 15th 1865 — The Nation's Martyr World map print A campaign-era portrait lithograph ofDeath of President Lincoln at Washington DC, April 15th 1865 The Nation's Martyr. A mourning lithograph issued in the raw hours after Ford's Theatre, when the ink was still wet on the surrender at Appomattox and a republic that had bled four years for its survival was asked, overnight, to bury the man who had steered it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National