Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print charting the precise geometry of

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

the republic's most restless denomination charting itself across a century of revivals

Henry Ward Beecher 1871 — a portrait of the Brooklyn pulpit's most thunderous voice at the height of his postwar influence

when Adams had traded the executive mansion for a House seat and the moral thunder of an antislavery conscience that refused to be gaveled silent

that it had survived itself

Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 usa history print charting the precise geometry ofOur Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 a Centennial year composite portrait, gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon, the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,