Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse and Jackson's long shadow

and Jackson's long shadow

his face the founding republic's most reproduced icon

the bound book open between them — a quiet domestic moment caught inside the years the country was tearing itself toward something

Cape Canaveral Iron Sentinel the Keepers Spiral Ascent traces the cast-iron plate tower that has watched the Florida surf since 1868

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse and Jackson's long shadowDesign of the National Washington Monument 1846 an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac, drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base, before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half built in the mud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National