Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 Bengals_Wall_Art hauling down a Confederate flag

hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House

issued in the long shadow after the war

The Victoria Affair Midtown Secrets in Art Deco Splendor unfolds like a scene clipped from a 1929 society column — chrome setbacks and zigzag spandrels rising above a Midtown sidewalk where the Hotel Victoria's revolving doors keep the rumors moving

transmuting a campaign likeness into elegy

Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 Bengals_Wall_Art hauling down a Confederate flagBenjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Supreme Court Justice whose dissent in Dred Scott broke ranks and whose name was thereafter spoken with the weight of a man who chose conscience over comity, engraved here in the long aftermath of the war his words had tried to forestall. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical