Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print The scene burns with the

The scene burns with the terrible clarity of a war the lithographers knew would close one empire and christen another

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 — a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista

drawn in the hand of an era still trying to decide whether he was a man or a monument

John Catron

Execution of the Thirty-Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 framed history print The scene burns with theExecution of the Thirty Eight Sioux Indians at Mankato, Minnesota, December 26 documents the largest mass execution in American history the scaffold at Mankato rendered in stark documentary engraving, the condemned arranged in a single grim circle as Lincoln's commuted list still left thirty eight to hang. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional