Front Cover: COVER IMAGES (from top row left):
“Krishna Instructs Arjuna on the Battlefield.” From Form of Beauty: The Krishna Art of B. G. Sharma, with text by Swami B. V. Tripurari (San Francisco: Mandala Publishing, 1998), 32. By permission of the publisher, www.mandala.org.
Bank-stock certificate. From Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time, by Fanny Fern (New York: Mason Brothers, 1855), 396.
Sarah Payson Parton, known as Fanny Fern, 1866. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-113065.
“The great secret of Odd-Fellowship exposed.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-31476.
Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1859. Daguerreotype by John A. Whipple, from the frontispiece to The Conduct of Life, vol. 6 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1904).
George Lippard, daguerreotype, ca. 1850. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-6548.
John Brown, detail from John Steuart Curry’s murals for the Kansas Statehouse. By permission of the Kansas State Historical Society.