General Grant and His Family 1868 neutral christmas 19th Century — a presidential

19th Century — a presidential portrait rendered in the gaunt

The Statue of Liberty 1878 — a documentary engraving from the years when Bartholdi's colossus existed only in fragments

the regimental colors arranged with the staged bravado of a republic discovering it could project force across two oceans at once

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre

General Grant and His Family 1868 neutral christmas 19th Century — a presidentialGeneral Grant and His Family 1868 a domestic portrait of the Union's foremost soldier in the year he traded the field for the ballot, posed beside Julia and the children as the country measured its scarred reconstruction against the steady, unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,