Legacy Images

6 albums

Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 (c. 1921)

Works by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris

American Painter, 1863—1930

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Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851

Works by Emanuel Leutze

German-American Painter, 1816—68

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Washington as a Farmer at Mount Vernon, 1851

Works by Junius Brutus Stearns

American Painter, 1810—85

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Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939

Works by Grant Wood

American Artist, 1891—1942

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Betsy Ross Flag

Legacy Artifacts

New Artifacts, repurposed, from the American Revolution

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The Birth of Old Glory, c. 1917

Other Legacy Images

Edward Hicks & More

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I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. This, with its echo of the Declaration (self-evident) was Jefferson at his most terse. Except for the phrase in usufruct — a legalism meaning the right to use property for a certain time — Jefferson’s words could be chiseled in stone, or shouted on the hustings.

— Richard Brookhiser
James Madison (2011)