The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC Arkansas Little Rock rises from

Arkansas Little Rock rises from the south bank of the Arkansas River

the soldier still visible beneath the statesman

when the Confederacy's chief soldier became a college president and a marble idea forming itself in real time

reached back for the founder's likeness as both compass and alibi

The Lunar Pull a Study of Celestial Forces and Earthly Waters — a Victorian selenographic plate that traces the silver tether between moon and tide

The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC Arkansas Little Rock rises fromThe Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 a commemorative lithograph issued in the first uneasy summer after Appomattox, cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood, three stars on his shoulder, as the Republic's quiet inheritor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National