George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print the red-bearded zealot who seized

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bracketed by the years that bore Antietam

The Celestial Mechanics of Light and Shadow — Part A — a Victorian astronomical plate where the eclipse becomes geometry and geometry becomes prayer

The Iron Sentinel of Southwest Pass — a screw-pile skeleton driven into the soft Mississippi delta where the river bleeds into the Gulf

A portrait of the Tennessee Whig at the moment William Henry Harrison's cabinet briefly seated him atop the War Department — a tenure measured in weeks before Tyler's apostasy scattered the appointees

George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 coach_print the red-bearded zealot who seizedGeorge M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States, 1844 a campaign era portrait of Polk's running mate, the Philadelphia lawyer whose tie breaking Senate vote would lower the tariff and whose name would be hung on a Texas town just shy of annexation. The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the