General Washington at Christ Church, Easter Morning 1795 vintage office art offering sweet potatoes and cold

offering sweet potatoes and cold water to a redcoat envoy — the kind of partisan legend the young republic loved to retell

grain elevators standing sentinel over Douglas Avenue

the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892

the moon's testimony pulled from a printed page

General Washington at Christ Church, Easter Morning 1795 vintage office art offering sweet potatoes and coldGeneral Washington at Christ Church, Easter Morning 1795 a devotional tableau of the President at worship in Philadelphia, rendered in the reverent engraver's hand that turned the first executive into something between citizen and saint, his bowed head a quiet argument that the new republic could kneel without bending. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National