Series of cover portrait illustrations for a reissued collection of important documents and writings in American History. Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives, introduction by Alan Trachtenberg; James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay: The Federalist, introduction by Cass R. Sunstein; Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables, introduction by Denis Donoghue; Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance, introduction by Robert S. Levine; and Anne Bradstreet: The Works of Anne Bradstreet, forward by Adrienne Rich. 13 x 19, oil on board.