Washington's Farewell Address 1856 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and tobacco-warehouse facades softened by

and tobacco-warehouse facades softened by linen ink

the Mount Vernon hearth offered up as ancestral balm two years after Appomattox

Garfield on the East Portico

Mädler's Alcyone Theory charts a heresy of the heavens: Johann Mädler's conjecture that all creation wheels around Alcyone

the spiral climb to the lantern room

Washington's Farewell Address 1856 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and tobacco-warehouse facades softened byWashington's Farewell Address 1856 an antebellum reprinting of the first president's parting counsel against faction and foreign entanglement, issued precisely as the Union began to fray. The choice to set those warnings in type again, on the eve of secession, reads less like reverence than like a republic arguing with itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National