Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 Bengals_Wall_Art hauling down a Confederate flag

hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House

A taxonomy of belonging rendered in cloth and color — diamonds

The Great Bartholdi Statue

The Manley Egg Boiler Patent a Victorian Kitchen Curiosity is the kind of curiosity that fills out a room — a small mechanical solution dignified by being drawn properly

Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 Bengals_Wall_Art hauling down a Confederate flagBenjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Supreme Court Justice whose dissent in Dred Scott broke ranks and whose name was thereafter spoken with the weight of a man who chose conscience over comity, engraved here in the long aftermath of the war his words had tried to forestall. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical