when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier-statesman destiny seemed to demand
A studio portrait of the apostate wife who sued the Mormon prophet for divorce and toured the lecture circuit with her grievance
its tents and barracks pitched against the long arithmetic of casualty lists
cataloguing voices that carried Cymric meter into an English-speaking republic
the architecture of Reconstruction itself
Explosion of the Maine 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when Old Rough and ReadyExplosion of the Maine 1898 the Havana Harbor catastrophe rendered in the urgent linework of the illustrated press, smoke and shattered hull pitched against a night sky that would, within weeks, become a battle cry. Here is the spark itself, the moment empire found its pretext. 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