Death of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 Size:36x24 a tableau where Emma Lazarus's

a tableau where Emma Lazarus's huddled masses and the machine age share the same patch of sky

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Nebraska arrives by way of the Platte and the sandhills — large-letter greetings stuffed with cornfields and capitol towers

This portrait fixes the author at the moment her sentences began doing the work that statesmen would not

Elected President When Fifty One — a paired portrait study tracing the rail-splitter's three decades from frontier youth to the man who would inherit a fracturing Union

Death of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 Size:36x24 a tableau where Emma Lazarus'sDeath of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 a mournful documentary engraving from the Mexican War, fixing the moment a Massachusetts officer fell at Buena Vista. The plate carries the somber arithmetic of Manifest Destiny: a republic counting its dead in the ledger of expansion. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,