Thaddeus Stevens 19th Century framed postcard art The Great Agnostic at the

The Great Agnostic at the height of his lecture-circuit fame

with the branches of government and the roster of states arranged like names in a Bible's flyleaf

The scene reads like a quiet argument between sanctuary and capital

tinting the Colorado River impossible greens and the canyon walls every shade of fire

the old sandstone dome still squat above a chamber where Clay

Thaddeus Stevens 19th Century framed postcard art The Great Agnostic at theThaddeus Stevens 19th Century the Pennsylvania Radical rendered in the severe register he preferred, his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and, later, the architecture of Reconstruction itself. 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