The Morning News 7 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798292544821)

From the frigid banks of the Delaware on a desperate Christmas Eve in 1776, where the fate of a nascent revolution hung by a thread of ice and daring, to the solemn signing of peace on a Christmas Eve in 1814, marking the close of another defining conflict. We witness the foundational act of liberty's embrace with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, and peer into the crucible of Reconstruction in 1865 as a nation grapples with the profound implications of abolished slavery.

But history is not solely forged in grand political theater or on the battlefield. This volume also takes you to the quiet, yet earth-shattering, moments of scientific revelation: the dawn of moving pictures in 1895 and the astonishing discovery of radium in 1898, each opening new vistas of human understanding and experience. And, through it all, the enduring struggles of the human spirit are laid bare, as seen in the tragic personal turmoil of a brilliant artist in 1888.