 | The Thomas Everard House, Williamsburg, VA, built 1718 Courtesy of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776. All rights reserved. Our thanks to The Foundation. |
 | John Mix Stanley, "Oregon City on the Willamette River," c. 1850-52; oil on canvas, 26 1/2 x 40 in., frame: 36 3/4 x 49 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Superior image coming. Courtesy of the Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695. 1979.17. All rights reserved. Our thanks for the generosity of the Museum. |
 | "Marksmanship - Foot and Horseback," Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, 1898, show poster Circus World Museum, 550 Water St, Baraboo, WI 53913 |
 | A fan belonging to previous presidents, a gift of President Polk to his wife at his inauguration, 1845. Original image copyright James K. Polk Memorial Association. The James K. Polk Ancestral Home, P.O. Box 741, Columbia, TN 38402. All rights reserved. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, pp. 300-1. Our thanks to the Polk Memorial Association. 8.5.2 |
 | "This is the House that Polk Built," showing his tenuously balanced young administration, 1846. Cartoon. Bettmann/Corbis. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, p. 300. 8.5.2 |
 | President James Knox Polk. Original image copyright James K. Polk Memorial Association. The James K. Polk Ancestral Home, P.O. Box 741, Columbia, TN 38402. All rights reserved. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, p. 290. Our thanks to The Polk Memorial Association. 8.5.2 |
 | Burning of a Black man, William Brown, in Omaha, Nebraska, 1919. Copyright holder unknown. Gelatin print. Possibly Brown Brothers, 100 Bortree Road, P.O. Box 50, Sterling, PA, 18463-0050. In Lorraine Hansberry, The Movement, 1964, p. 25. 11.5.2 |
 | Plan of the central portion of Detroit, Michigan, 1807, devised by Augustus Woodward to rebuild the town of Detroit after it had been destroyed by a fire in 1805. As can be seen, this plan was unique. Broad avenues divided the city into equilateral triangles of blocks, which were divided by additional avenues into six right-angle triangles, each of which was called a "section." Each section had a park or square in its center. At the intersection of 12 avenues Woodward placed a "Grand Circus" of 5-1/2 acres; at the intersection of six avenues he placed a rectangular square. Only the top part of this plan was used in the rebuilding of Detroit. See also UR-P-17. Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. In John W. Reps, "The Making of Urban America," Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1965, p. 269. 8.5.2 |
 | Thomas Cole, "A Wild Scene," 1831-32. Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218. In Howard S. Merritt, Introduction, "Thomas Cole," 1969, p. 51. 8.5.2 |
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Battle of Ridgeway, Ontario, 1866. "A force of 900 well-armed Irish American nationalists, all sworn to the Fenian cause, attacked Canada across the Niagara River near Buffalo, NY, at Fort Erie. Their objective was to destabilize Britain’s rule in Ireland by sparking a military crisis in Canada....The subsequent retreat of the Canadian forces with their dead and wounded from the Battle of Ridgeway was a humiliating military defeat on home ground, and was to be celebrated by Irish patriots as their first victory over the British military since Fontenay in 1745." - Peter Vronsky. "The Fenian troops, initially successful in their first engagement against the somewhat confused Canadian volunteer militiamen, had to retreat back to the United States as more Canadian and British troops converged on the Niagara peninsula. Fenian raids across the Québec border were repulsed a few days later." - Canadian Military History.
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4 CANADA. C-018737. Texts: Peter Vronsky, "History of the Toronto Police, 1859-66," ©2003-2005 (website); and Canadian Military History (website), Dept of National Defence, Pearkes Bldg, 101 Col. By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0K2 CANADA. All rights reserved. |
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"View of the triumphal Arch and Colonnade, erected in Boston in honor of the president of the United States... 1789," for Washington's triumphal visit to Boston. Engraving, 1789. Massachusetts Magazine, vol. II, 1789. Independence National Historical Park, US National Park Service, 143 S Third St, Philadelphia, PA 19106. |
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"The Happy Effects of that Grand System of Shutting Ports Against the English!!" 1808. "President Jefferson addressing a group of disgruntled men, as he defends the policy of his Embargo which, combined with the Non-Intercourse Act, was intended to bring about a suspension of foreign commerce." - Library of Congress. Cruikshank cartoon, hand-colored etching.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-121460. |
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Cartoon, "A Peep into the Antifederal Club," New York, 1793. Attacking the pro-French sentiments of the Jeffersonians, this Federalist engraving depicts Thomas Jefferson on a soapbox, mouthing a parody of Hamlet. Unidentified artist. Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19107. |
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Graph: "American Foreign Trade, 1790-1812." ASK Copyright © R. Jackson Wilson, et al., "The Pursuit of Liberty: A History of the American People," (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458) 1996, vol. 1. All rights reserved. |
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"Judgment Day of the Tories," 1795. E. Tisdale engraving. John Trumbull, "M'Fingal," 1795. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-51681. |
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