Battle of Quingua, Philippines, April 23, 1899 framed stamp art hieroglyphs weathering quietly behind the

hieroglyphs weathering quietly behind the Metropolitan Museum

A Jacksonian Democrat's tenure rendered in the formal hand reserved for the upper chamber

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty

Battle of Quingua, Philippines, April 23, 1899 framed stamp art hieroglyphs weathering quietly behind theBattle of Quingua, Philippines, April 23, 1899 records one of the early skirmishes of the Philippine American War, where Major Bell's cavalry met Aguinaldo's insurgents in the rice fields north of Manila a small, bloody footnote in the empire America had only just begun to wear. 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