his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and
Chain of Events in American History 1887 arrives as a Gilded Age memory device — a didactic chart linking the republic's milestones in unbroken sequence
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Battle of Molino del Rey near the City of Mexico
The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling
Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding Framed_Sailboat his clubfoot and lacerating witBattle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 Union Gen. McClellan Commanding. A documentary engraving of the Peninsula Campaign's muddy reckoning, where Hancock's bayonets came down a Virginia slope and earned him, in McClellan's own dispatch, the adjective that would follow him to Gettysburg: superb. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,