United Americans of the State of New York 1848 Jacksonville_print gathering the martyred president among

gathering the martyred president among the uniformed architects of Union victory — an exercise in remembrance staged for a country still translating its grief into iconography

the old sandstone dome still squat above a chamber where Clay

Progress of the Race

useful martyrdoms by which Manifest Destiny bought its own mythology

issued as the GOP placed its considerable weight behind Roosevelt's hand-picked successor

United Americans of the State of New York 1848 Jacksonville_print gathering the martyred president amongUnited Americans of the State of New York 1848 a nativist banner from the year of revolutions abroad and Free Soil agitation at home, when the Empire State's wards were already rehearsing the quarrels over immigration and loyalty that would define the coming decade. 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