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when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe

or simply someone who looks up at the sky with wonder

Grant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond assembles the Union high command as a single iconographic chorus — the men who pressed the long

General Washington at Christ Church

every clause a hinge between the republic that was and the one being forged in blood

City Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 fresno_vintage when the empire he onceCity Hall and Vicinity, New York City, 1899 surveys lower Manhattan at the close of the century, the old Federal style hall hemmed in by the rising commercial blocks of a city already outgrowing its civic heart. A documentary view rendered with the surveyor's patience for cornices, awnings, and the ordinary geometry of municipal life. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the