From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 Victoria_BC_canvas and the careful forgetting of

and the careful forgetting of what the war had only just settled

Goff's Evolution of the American Flag charts the republic's banner across its many alterations — from Grand Union to Betsy Ross to the star-crowded fields of later admissions — a draftsman's genealogy of stripes and stars rendered as a single national lineage

Walt Whitman 19th Century — a portrait of the bard who walked the army hospitals with notebook in hand

Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common

From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 Victoria_BC_canvas and the careful forgetting ofFrom the Plantation to the Senate 1883 traces an arc no antebellum cartographer could have charted a Reconstruction era print honoring the improbable distance between the cotton row and the chamber floor, drawn in the cautious optimism of a country still learning what its amendments meant. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical