Taylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 old West Indies map when the country was still

when the country was still negotiating what to make of the man who had accepted Lee's sword and then stumbled through two terms in the White House

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rendered at a moment when the young republic was still learning to receive the world's old courts — Ottoman robes inked with the careful curiosity of a nation testing its diplomatic reach

1882 — a temperance broadside from the height of the dry crusade

Columbus Circle Gilded Age Crossroads at the Edge of Central Park — a postcard rendering of the great rotary where Broadway

Taylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 old West Indies map when the country was stillTaylor's Victories on the Rio Grande 1846 a campaign lithograph trumpeting Zachary Taylor's opening triumphs at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, where Manifest Destiny found its general and the Mexican War found its first laurels along a contested southern river. 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