Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Swiss Flag Wall Art Home of Abraham Lincoln

Home of Abraham Lincoln

Rochester's clinic spires

Polk President of the United States 1845 — a campaign-era portrait of the dark-horse Tennessean at the threshold of his single

and the moral fevers of a republic still arguing with itself

where blue-coated men posed against the Tennessee River's sweep — the camera catching soldiers who would soon march into the smoke at Missionary Ridge

Great Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 Swiss Flag Wall Art Home of Abraham LincolnGreat Riot at the Astor Place Opera House, New York, on Thursday Evening, May 10 a documentary engraving of the 1849 Astor Place catastrophe, when a feud between Edwin Forrest's partisans and the English tragedian Macready spilled into the street and the militia answered with musketry. Class resentment dressed as a theater quarrel, and the cobblestones remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive