Our Presidents 1789-1914 vintage map Denver issued thirty-three years on as

issued thirty-three years on as the Republic kept rehearsing the document like scripture

and large-letter greetings stamped against fir and snowpack

19th Century — officers bent over a field map by lamplight

his six years on the Senate floor coinciding with the bank wars

Our Presidents 1789-1914 vintage map Denver issued thirty-three years on asOur Presidents 1789 1914 a composite portrait gallery marching from Washington's powdered restraint to Wilson's scholarly austerity, the executive line arrayed like a secular iconostasis. Issued on the eve of a world war, it reads as a republic taking inventory of itself before the century turned grim. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional