General Scott at Cerro Gordo 1847 quote for pilot issued thirty-three years on as

issued thirty-three years on as the Republic kept rehearsing the document like scripture

The 1877 dating places it squarely in the long aftermath of the war

Benjamin Franklin Born in Boston Jany 17th 1706 Died in Philadelphia April 17th 1790

A portrait of the Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for Black self-determination culminated in the founding of the National Afro-American Press Association — rendered with the dignified gravity reserved for men who built institutions in the long

General Scott at Cerro Gordo 1847 quote for pilot issued thirty-three years on asGeneral Scott at Cerro Gordo 1847 a campaign engraving from the Mexican War's mountain pass, where Winfield Scott's flanking maneuver around Santa Anna's batteries opened the road to Mexico City and rehearsed, in miniature, the Manifest Destiny argument the Republic was busy making with cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical