Explosion of the Maine 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame its tents and barracks pitched

its tents and barracks pitched against the long arithmetic of casualty lists

when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier-statesman destiny seemed to demand

The Bertelli Apparatus Patent for Effervescence reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century — a portrait study of the wartime president

A studio portrait of the apostate wife who sued the Mormon prophet for divorce and toured the lecture circuit with her grievance

Explosion of the Maine 1898 Frame Style:Ebony Frame its tents and barracks pitchedExplosion of the Maine 1898 the Havana Harbor catastrophe rendered in the urgent linework of the illustrated press, smoke and shattered hull pitched against a night sky that would, within weeks, become a battle cry. Here is the spark itself, the moment empire found its pretext. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the