General Grant and His Family 1868 neutral christmas when the outcome of the

when the outcome of the wager was at last no longer in doubt

Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition

freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction

The Statue of Liberty 1878 — a documentary engraving from the years when Bartholdi's colossus existed only in fragments

General Grant and His Family 1868 neutral christmas when the outcome of theGeneral Grant and His Family 1868 a domestic portrait of the Union's foremost soldier in the year he traded the field for the ballot, posed beside Julia and the children as the country measured its scarred reconstruction against the steady, unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,