Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender antique zodiac hand down Dred Scott and

hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams

The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent Drawing reads as a study in restraint — the close

and shipped from the United States — never mass-produced overseas

A souvenir rendering of the Hawkeye State's pavilion on the White City grounds

1885 — a portrait from the general's final year

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender antique zodiac hand down Dred Scott andCornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender an engraving of the courier's ride from Yorktown, the moment a young aide de camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on, delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical