General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt. May Receiving His Orders Denver_Framed when the Union's surviving brass

when the Union's surviving brass had hardened into legend and the work of remembrance demanded their faces arrayed in formal rank

an astronomical lithograph in which Jupiter looms cathedral-vast above a diminished Earth and Mercury cowers like an acolyte

The Gateway of Forgotten Names conjures the great hall at Ellis Island

A mourning lithograph from the funeral train's slow midwestern passage

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt. May Receiving His Orders Denver_Framed when the Union's surviving brassGeneral Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma Capt. May Receiving His Orders a documentary lithograph of May 9, 1846, the moment before the dragoon charge that overran Mexican guns and gave the young republic a taste of the conquest its politicians had been promising. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the