Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 discipline_artwork the lithographer's careful shading lending

the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep

on a citizenship still being contested

The 4th of July 1872 — a centennial-eve commemorative rendered in the language of a republic still nursing its wounds

The Iron Sentinels of Trinity Shoal — Lighthouse Engineering Blueprint charts the skeletal iron legs driven deep into Gulf mud off the Louisiana coast

Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria

Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 discipline_artwork the lithographer's careful shading lendingHon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856. A campaign portrait of the Pennsylvania doughface on the eve of his victory over Frmont and Fillmore, printed in that brittle season when the Union still pretended compromise might hold and Kansas was already bleeding into the headlines. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional