the republic's most restless denomination charting itself across a century of revivals
each planet pinned to its appointed circle as if obedience itself were a law of physics
Henry Ward Beecher 1871 — a portrait of the Brooklyn pulpit's most thunderous voice at the height of his postwar influence
when Adams had traded the executive mansion for a House seat and the moral thunder of an antislavery conscience that refused to be gaveled silent
The engraver gives him the steady gaze of a man who answered Lincoln's correspondence and Rome's both
Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print the republic's most restless denominationOur Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 a Centennial year composite portrait, gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon, the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,