Death of George Shifler, Born Jan 24 1825, Murdered May 6 1844 in Kensington framed flag art rendered here in the careful

rendered here in the careful gravity of a man briefly hailed as a hero and quietly rebuked as a diplomat

Fac Simile of the Original Draught of the Declaration of Independence in General Congress Assembled 4th July 1776 — Jefferson's working manuscript reproduced with every interlineation and strikethrough intact

and any space that takes American political history seriously — the years of speeches that built the country and the divisions that nearly broke it

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

Death of George Shifler, Born Jan 24 1825, Murdered May 6 1844 in Kensington framed flag art rendered here in the carefulDeath of George Shifler, Born Jan 24 1825, Murdered May 6 1844 in Kensington a martyr's lithograph pressed from the Philadelphia nativist riots, where a nineteen year old's death in Kensington became kindling for the anti Catholic furies smoldering through Jacksonian America's immigrant wards. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical