Gate of Belen, Mexico, the 13th September 1847 Pittsburgh_Canvas The Three Cardinal Principles of

The Three Cardinal Principles of the Grand Army of the Republic 1884 — a fraternal lithograph of the Union veterans' order

Battle of New Orleans 1815 — a commemorative engraving of Jackson's improbable victory on the Chalmette plain

still a Jacksonian foot soldier in Nashville before Manifest Destiny found its loudest advocate

Morton governed a Hoosier state riven by Copperhead resistance and Union desperation

an immigrant Babel pressed into the bones of Lower Manhattan

Gate of Belen, Mexico, the 13th September 1847 Pittsburgh_Canvas The Three Cardinal Principles ofGate of Belen, Mexico, the 13th September 1847 a documentary engraving of Scott's assault on the garita guarding Mexico City's southern approach, rendered with the swagger of a republic that had decided, with cannon and column, that the continent was its inheritance. 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