Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 vintage new york The 4th of July 1872

The 4th of July 1872 — a centennial-eve commemorative rendered in the language of a republic still nursing its wounds

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and the studies of people who keep a bottle of rye on the shelf for the right occasion

drawn in the last century that still believed the heavens could be cradled in brass

drawn in the cautious optimism of a country still learning what its amendments meant

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 vintage new york The 4th of July 1872Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre, the fallen president recast in apotheosis a lithograph in the elevated mourning style the country reached for when grief required allegory, and the Union's preservation demanded its first secular saint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and