Death of Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans 1815 huge map of USA President of the United States

President of the United States 1789 — a layered allegorical portrait that fuses square and compass with epaulet and sash

9264 belongs to the great pre-Prohibition cocktail era

Ohio Cleveland rises off the Cuyahoga in lithographed views of smokestacks and steamers

that the war had meant something singular and indivisible

The Little Magician rendered in the official hand of a sitting executive — a portrait from the years the Panic of 1837 still smoldered beneath his desk

Death of Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans 1815 huge map of USA President of the United StatesDeath of Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans 1815 renders the British general's fall on the Chalmette plain the moment Andrew Jackson's ragged line of militia, riflemen, and pirates broke an empire's veterans into the marsh, an engraving steeped in the audacity of a republic that had just refused, twice, to die. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,