Chain of Events in American History 1887 Framed_St_Louis 1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate

1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America

and gastronomic boast

where ellipses became scripture and the heavens kept time like a watchmaker's prayer

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

Chain of Events in American History 1887 Framed_St_Louis 1865 Jefferson Davis President ConfederateChain of Events in American History 1887 arrives as a Gilded Age memory device a didactic chart linking the republic's milestones in unbroken sequence, the kind of civic instruction that flourished in parlors when the war was still close enough to touch but far enough to be arranged into lessons. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical