Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The American Declaration of Independence

The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated 1861 reissues Jefferson's founding text at the precise moment the Union began to fracture

half a century after his death

and true enough

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame The American Declaration of IndependenceArms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 a heraldic engraving tracing the General's ancestral line back through English gentry, published at a moment when a fracturing republic clung to its founder's bloodline as proof of inheritance, of continuity, of a Union worth its mythology. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical