Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 7 Size:18x24 General Franz Sigel at the

General Franz Sigel at the Battle of Pea Ridge

A Monument in Stone and Shadow renders St

when the nation hurried to enshrine the men whose wires had stitched its severed halves back into legible distance

every column a quiet argument that knowledge belongs to the public

when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 7 Size:18x24 General Franz Sigel at theAbraham Lincoln 19th Century 7 a portrait engraving of the wartime president, his face already arranged into the gaunt iconography that the country would learn by heart, drawn in the hand of an era still trying to decide whether he was a man or a monument. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic