Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 Bengals_Wall_Art issued in the long shadow

issued in the long shadow after the war

issued thirty-three years on as the Republic kept rehearsing the document like scripture

A taxonomy of belonging rendered in cloth and color — diamonds

the locomotive stopped mid-route while bystanders gather at a respectful distance to watch the smoke rise

hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House

Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 Bengals_Wall_Art issued in the long shadowBenjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Supreme Court Justice whose dissent in Dred Scott broke ranks and whose name was thereafter spoken with the weight of a man who chose conscience over comity, engraved here in the long aftermath of the war his words had tried to forestall. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical