Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 Denver map the moment Fort Sumter's harbor

the moment Fort Sumter's harbor turned from rumor to artillery

Wisconsin Madison sits on its isthmus between Mendota and Monona

a map of the United States rendered as a hog and garlanded with the regional dishes of each state

Kansas Wichita rises from the Arkansas River bend where cattle drives once met the rails — a Cowtown turned Air Capital

Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 Denver map the moment Fort Sumter's harborCommittee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 a postwar lithograph that returns to the room where Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin bent over the parchment, summoned by a reunited nation hungry to anchor its bruised present in the audacity of its founding. 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