Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea and edges that turned a

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

and the slow-burning quarrel over the West

19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg

Eulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A

their faces arranged in the careful hierarchy of a lost cause still being mythologized in ink

Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea and edges that turned aCentennial 17761876. A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year, issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested, broken, and asked to mean something again. 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