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

1893 — a year inscribed on the ledger of the Gilded Age's reckoning

An astronomical lithograph from the age when the chromosphere first betrayed its secrets

his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and

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,