The People of These United States Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congresses and Courts, 1864 maryland wall art and a Tennessee general staring

and a Tennessee general staring down nullifiers with the same flint he once turned on the British at New Orleans

The Lawyers Secret Jenners Literary Deception Flask Patent is a drawing from the brass-rail era — when the long bar

and large-letter greetings sent home between rounds of saltwater taffy and the slow turn of the Trimper carousel

The Boston Massacre 1893 revisits the King Street bloodshed of March 1770 through a late-Victorian engraver's hand — redcoats arrayed in disciplined volley

The Barbers Blade Patent Mintzer Straight Razor Blueprint is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

The People of These United States Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congresses and Courts, 1864 maryland wall art and a Tennessee general staringThe People of These United States Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congresses and Courts, 1864 Lincoln's Bloomington thunder set in type during the war's hinge year, a broadside that reads like a sermon to a republic deciding whether self government would survive its own bloodletting. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,