Music: "The Union," composed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, performed by Akiko Sasaki

Logo by Lily Piyathaisere, based on John Frederick Kensett, "Hudson River Scene" (1857)

"You didn't kill Liberty Valance!"

William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain (1925)

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