Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...
Once upon a time, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was the great modern American jurist. The “Yankee from Olympus,” as Catherine Drinker Bowen’s 1944 biography called Holmes, was the first celebrity justice ...
FOREWORD The story of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is the story of his country. The narrative cannot begin with the flat date of his birth—1841. This was a man whose presence carried tradition; over ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. After serving in the Civil War, during which he was wounded, Oliver Wendell ...