Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century framed sports art This is natural philosophy in

This is natural philosophy in its Sunday clothes

1864 — Lincoln's Bloomington thunder set in type during the war's hinge year

19th Century — a portrait of the Union's quietest thunderbolt

of the Magnolia Building rising over a prairie city that traded longhorns for skyscrapers in a single generation

19th Century — the Philippine military governor rendered in the stiff officer's portraiture of a republic newly in the empire business

Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century framed sports art This is natural philosophy inBattle of Buena Vista 19th Century a lithograph of Taylor's improbable February stand against Santa Anna in the Mexican mountains, where outnumbered American volunteers held a narrow pass and minted a presidency in the smoke of Manifest Destiny's most consequential campaign. 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