when the accidental president and his contemporaries quarreled over the terms of a reunited republic — impeachment looming
The Huddled Masses of Mulberry Bend — a Jacob Riis-era tableau of the Five Points' most notorious crook
The kind of instructional engraving that asked schoolrooms and parlors alike to admire the machinery of self-government
Illustrated Political Chart: A Cartoon of American Politics and the Tapeworm renders the body politic as host to a parasite
where Winfield Scott's flanking maneuver around Santa Anna's batteries opened the road to Mexico City and rehearsed
In Memoriam: God's Will Not Ours Be Done 1911 Frame Style:Ebony Frame when the accidental president andIn Memoriam: God's Will Not Ours Be Done 1911 a mourning lithograph that reads like a hymn pressed onto paper, its title borrowed from Gethsemane and offered up as consolation for a grief the family could not name aloud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,