Capture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 antique map italy The Celestial Order Smith's Solar

The Celestial Order Smith's Solar System With Leverrier Herschel — Asa Smith's mid-century plate convenes the solar family in solemn procession

A campaign-ready portrait of the Mexican War's most quotable general

and the quiet ledger of American men summoned to a European reckoning

Death of Washington Dec 14 AD 1799 — a mourning lithograph fixing the moment the republic lost its first citizen at Mount Vernon

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century — a portrait of the wartime president rendered in the grave register of his age

Capture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 antique map italy The Celestial Order Smith's SolarCapture of El Caney and El Paso Fortifications of Santiago 1898 a documentary engraving of the July assault on Santiago's outer ring, where blockhouse and ridge fell to American volleys and the Cuban campaign tipped, almost casually, into the founding gesture of a new imperial century. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,