Thomas Corwin, the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Vintage Siam map and tropic stretched taut around

and tropic stretched taut around the globe like the rigging of some vast theological instrument

The Roop Vessel Patent Blueprint of the American Beer Mug reads like the working memory of a Victorian brewery — the apparatus that moved

steamboat whistles

Virginia arrives in lithographed views of Tidewater estuaries and Blue Ridge hollows

here flanked by Frances and the children whose births and christenings the nation followed with unseemly appetite

Thomas Corwin, the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Vintage Siam map and tropic stretched taut aroundThomas Corwin, the People's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait floated on the eve of the 1848 race, when the Ohio Whig's thunderous Senate speech against the Mexican War had made him either prophet or pariax, depending on which side of expansion you stood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical