Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 discipline_artwork A wartime engraving of the

A wartime engraving of the first president

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

From the Cradle to the Grave: Scenes and Incidents in the Life of James A

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

Hon. James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, 1856 discipline_artwork A wartime engraving of theHon. 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