Our Heroes and Our Flags 1895 Fenway_Park_Wall Industrial Chart of Liberty 19th

Industrial Chart of Liberty 19th Century renders the Republic as a balance sheet of smokestacks and rolling mills

The general of Veracruz rendered as candidate — a campaign portrait floated by a Whig party already cracking along its sectional seams

finishing the memoirs that would outlive him by weeks

it reads as a republic taking inventory of itself before the century turned grim

his likeness rendered in the sober engraver's hand reserved for men whose presidencies were measured in vetoes overridden and articles of impeachment narrowly survived

Our Heroes and Our Flags 1895 Fenway_Park_Wall Industrial Chart of Liberty 19thOur Heroes and Our Flags 1895 gathers the Union's commanding officers beneath the regimental colors they carried through the war, a chromolithograph published thirty years on when the work of remembrance had hardened into pageantry and the generals' faces had begun to belong to schoolrooms more than to battlefields. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,