Republican Platform of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt Size:18x24 its granite dome and Doric

its granite dome and Doric colonnade rising from Riverside Park like a Republic's answer to Napoleon's Invalides — a Gilded Age memorial keeping watch over a sleeping Morningside Heights

when the sobriquet was still fresh on Confederate tongues and the Virginia general's stone-still brigade had become the Republic's first hard lesson that the war would be neither short nor bloodless

when the republic counted its assassinations and found

The Publicans Apparatus Beer Pump Patent Drawing reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

Republican Platform of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt Size:18x24 its granite dome and DoricRepublican Platform of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt the party's printed creed at the close of TR's second term, a document that reads like a man clearing his throat before handing the bully pulpit to Taft, every plank stiffened by trust busting, conservation, and the swagger of a republic newly fond of its own reach. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,