Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea 19th Century — a portrait

19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg

Alexander Hamilton 1932 — a Depression-era commemorative likeness of the first Treasury Secretary

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their faces arranged in the careful hierarchy of a lost cause still being mythologized in ink

over what its fleet and its Union were for

Centennial 1776–1876 dancer_gift_idea 19th Century — a portraitCentennial 17761876. A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year, issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested, broken, and asked to mean something again. 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