Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print Oct 5th 1813 (1841) —

Oct 5th 1813 (1841) — a documentary engraving issued nearly three decades after the Shawnee confederacy collapsed in the Ontario mud

drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy

A late-century synoptic table that flattens a century of American incident into columns and crosshatched epochs — the Gilded Age's faith that the republic's story could be tabulated

Michigan Detroit arrives in lithographed views of Woodward Avenue at full hum — streetcars

lifeboats foundering in the middle distance — a Currier print that made the catastrophe a household horror

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print Oct 5th 1813 (1841) —Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox, when the citizen soldier had become ceremonial again, the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical