Grant and His Family 1867 Cocktail_Canvas_Art and Sierra-bound rail yards collided

and Sierra-bound rail yards collided

A front page from the Gilded Age metropolis

The Great Bartholdi Statue

rendering the General-President as a brother of the lodge as much as a father of the republic

Grant and His Family 1867 Cocktail_Canvas_Art and Sierra-bound rail yards collidedGrant and His Family 1867 a domestic portrait of the Union's victorious general two years after Appomattox and two years before the White House, the soldier rendered as paterfamilias in the quieter register of a country still learning how to live with its own survival. 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