Illustration by Richard Stein
Visions of America, LLC/EyeWire Images.
Visions of America, LLC/EyeWire Images.
Richard Stein
West Front of the U.S. Capitol (cropped), Architect of the Capitol/USCapitol/Flickr
State Of The Union (201501200004HQ) (cropped), President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, in Washington, NASA HQ PHOTO/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Abraham Lincoln, standing, full-length, facing right, holding rope of flag, arm upraised (cropped), Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZC2-6378
Richard Stein
Vuë de Salem (cropped), Balth. Frederic Leizelt, ca. 1770-1780, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, 3g04292v/Wikimedia Commons
Independence Hall in Philadelphia (cropped) by Ferdinand Richardt, 1858–63, The White House Historical Association (White House Collection)/Wikimedia Commons.
Visitors looking at the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives (cropped), 2015, photo by Jeff Reed, National Archives.
The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, by John Trumbull, 1786-1820, Yale University Art Gallery, Trumbull Collection/IIP Photo Archive/Flickr
Preamble to the Constitution montage by Natalia Naduris-Weissman, source image: Constitution of the United States, page 1, National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Identifier (NAID) 1667751/Wikimedia Commons
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons