From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 Victoria_BC_canvas Providence's mill-stack skyline

Providence's mill-stack skyline

Army and Navy Monument on the Boston Common

this is the founding document of the United States — the words Jefferson wrote

Goff's Evolution of the American Flag charts the republic's banner across its many alterations — from Grand Union to Betsy Ross to the star-crowded fields of later admissions — a draftsman's genealogy of stripes and stars rendered as a single national lineage

From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 Victoria_BC_canvas Providence's mill-stack skylineFrom the Plantation to the Senate 1883 traces an arc no antebellum cartographer could have charted a Reconstruction era print honoring the improbable distance between the cotton row and the chamber floor, drawn in the cautious optimism of a country still learning what its amendments meant. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical