Grant and His Family 1867 Cocktail_Canvas_Art A front page from the

A front page from the Gilded Age metropolis

rendering the General-President as a brother of the lodge as much as a father of the republic

and the borrowed iconography of an old world pressed into the service of a new one

and Sierra-bound rail yards collided

The Great Bartholdi Statue

Grant and His Family 1867 Cocktail_Canvas_Art A front page from theGrant and His Family 1867 a domestic portrait of the Union's victorious general two years after Appomattox and two years before the White House, the soldier rendered as paterfamilias in the quieter register of a country still learning how to live with its own survival. 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