Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding Framed_Sailboat 1794 — the founding charter

1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting

The Barbers Instrument Patent Tools of Precise Vanity comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and

with Alcyone at their center

Battle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico

Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding Framed_Sailboat 1794 — the founding charterBattle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 Union Gen. McClellan Commanding. A documentary engraving of the Peninsula Campaign's muddy reckoning, where Hancock's bayonets came down a Virginia slope and earned him, in McClellan's own dispatch, the adjective that would follow him to Gettysburg: superb. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,