Battle of Mexico 1847 spokane_print Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch-aloft before

Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch-aloft before she was ever assembled — a French gift to an American republic still stitching itself back together

The Silent Chamber — Patent Blueprint of the Vanishing American Phone Booth is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

1893 — a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning

sent north to argue Florida's case in the marble chambers of a capital that regarded the territory as both prize and problem

Battle of Mexico 1847 spokane_print Bartholdi's colossus rendered torch-aloft beforeBattle of Mexico 1847 a campaign engraving from Scott's march on the capital, all bayonet smoke and lithographer's flourish, rendered in the season when Manifest Destiny had grown confident enough to mistake conquest for inheritance. 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 publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz