Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art Grant at the Capture of

Grant at the Capture of the City of Mexico — a documentary engraving of the young lieutenant amid the smoke of 1847

in miniature

Sky Scrapers of Philadelphia 1898

North Dakota Fargo rises from the Red River Valley flatlands as the prairie's unlikely metropolis — a grain-belt crossroads where linen postcards traded views of Broadway's bustle

Cincinnati

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art Grant at the Capture ofDeath of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto, where the mobile cannon he had drilled into doctrine outlived him by an afternoon. The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning Manifest Destiny pausing, briefly, to bury its first martyr. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,