Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse a portrait freighted with the

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

San Juan Hill still ahead of him

Grover Cleveland 196 — a campaign portrait of the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms

every funnel plume a punctuation mark in America's loudest diplomatic sentence

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse a portrait freighted with theDesign of the National Washington Monument 1846 an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac, drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base, before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half built in the mud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National