Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 Denver map Wisconsin Madison sits on its

Wisconsin Madison sits on its isthmus between Mendota and Monona

The Presidents of the United States 1842 assembles the republic's first ten executives into a single engraved gallery

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Kansas Wichita rises from the Arkansas River bend where cattle drives once met the rails — a Cowtown turned Air Capital

The image trades on memory: founder as refuge

Committee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 Denver map Wisconsin Madison sits on itsCommittee of Congress Drafting the Declaration of Independence 1865 a postwar lithograph that returns to the room where Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin bent over the parchment, summoned by a reunited nation hungry to anchor its bruised present in the audacity of its founding. 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