Martha Washington E Pluribus Unum old Boston map Historical National Masterpiece of Art

Historical National Masterpiece of Art 1876 arrives in the centennial year

May 3rd 1863 — a battlefield lithograph rendered in the smoke and confusion of Hooker's undoing

General Douglas MacArthur 20th Century — a press-photograph likeness of the young officer whose name would outgrow the century that produced him

19th Century — a documentary engraving of St

Hooker at Chancellorsville May 3 1863 — the third day's catastrophe rendered in ink

Martha Washington E Pluribus Unum old Boston map Historical National Masterpiece of ArtMartha Washington E Pluribus Unum. The first lady rendered as national emblem, her likeness wreathed in the motto that bound thirteen quarrelsome colonies into a single experiment a portrait that asks her to carry, quietly, the weight of a republic still inventing its own iconography. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,