Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Bryan 1919

Bryan 1919

US Shield of Honor 19th Century — a heraldic chromolithograph in the patriotic vernacular of the period

and any space that takes American political history seriously — the years of speeches that built the country and the divisions that nearly broke it

it's a daily reminder of what 1776 set in motion

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Bryan 1919Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York, September 1899 the hero of Manila Bay rendered in commemorative gravity, his return to the harbor staged as the republic's first imperial homecoming, smokestack diplomacy made flesh in epaulets and braid. 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