Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) herald square art and men of letters into

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

Distinguished Masons of the Revolution

The Gentlemans Peculiar Apparatus Patent for the Preservation of the Victorian Moustache belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the June 1898 skirmish in which Wheeler's dismounted cavalry and Roosevelt's Rough Riders pushed Spanish regulars back through the Cuban brush

Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) herald square art and men of letters intoPatrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) an 1852 engraving reaching back nearly a century to recover the moment Henry rose against the Stamp Act, his arm cocked mid oration, the burgesses arrayed in the half shock of men hearing treason spoken plainly for the first time. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional