38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map drawn nearly three decades later

drawn nearly three decades later by a hand still convinced the duel mattered

this memorial tract carries the long mourning cadence of a republic still rehearsing how to bury its leaders

freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction

Henry Ward Beecher 1871 — a portrait of the Brooklyn pulpit's most thunderous voice at the height of his postwar influence

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map drawn nearly three decades later38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 a militia document from the long peace before the storm, when state artillery companies drilled in handsome uniforms and borrowed the names of dead presidents, certain that the Republic's next war would be fought somewhere far from home. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical