Death of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 Size:36x24 ledgering its first century of

ledgering its first century of presidents

Nebraska arrives by way of the Platte and the sandhills — large-letter greetings stuffed with cornfields and capitol towers

by November

and the press obliged

a tableau where Emma Lazarus's huddled masses and the machine age share the same patch of sky

Death of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 Size:36x24 ledgering its first century ofDeath of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 a mournful documentary engraving from the Mexican War, fixing the moment a Massachusetts officer fell at Buena Vista. The plate carries the somber arithmetic of Manifest Destiny: a republic counting its dead in the ledger of expansion. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,