Last Charge and Capture of Port Arthur 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The scene gathers the deathbed

The scene gathers the deathbed mourners in the Petersen House parlor with the solemnity of a country still learning how to grieve its martyred president

A scene drawn in the smoke of a Union undoing

the moment before the dragoon charge that overran Mexican guns and gave the young republic a taste of the conquest its politicians had been promising

Washington at the Outposts of Valley Forge 1859 — a mid-century lithograph reaching back across eighty winters to find the General among his sentries

Last Charge and Capture of Port Arthur 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The scene gathers the deathbedLast Charge and Capture of Port Arthur 19th Century a documentary engraving of the Russo Japanese siege rendered for American eyes, all bayonets cresting the Manchurian ridge as a Pacific fortress changed hands and the old century's balance of empires audibly shifted on its hinges. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and