Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 idaho postcard the war still wearing its

the war still wearing its first uniform

Andersonville Prison Camp

1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States — a commemorative print issued for Philadelphia's hundred-year reckoning

A campaign portrait of Manifest Destiny in human form

Andrew Hull Foote 19th Century renders the Union flag officer in the sober register of naval portraiture — the gunboat commodore of Forts Henry and Donelson

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 idaho postcard the war still wearing itsEx Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox, gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory. The image carries the particular stillness of men who outlived the war they fought. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,