Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender antique zodiac Every traced cone of darkness

Every traced cone of darkness here feels less like astronomy than liturgy

hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams

and shipped from the United States — never mass-produced overseas

A souvenir rendering of the Hawkeye State's pavilion on the White City grounds

mourning rendered as martial dignity in the long aftermath of the war he survived

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender antique zodiac Every traced cone of darknessCornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender an engraving of the courier's ride from Yorktown, the moment a young aide de camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on, delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical