James Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where reputations were litigated in

where reputations were litigated in ink

almost casually

the firmament finally confessing its true arithmetic

Jany 11th 1863 renders McClernand's gunboats wheeling on the Arkansas River in a haze of mortar smoke

the salt-bleached shore of the Great Salt Lake

James Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where reputations were litigated inJames Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 a campaign lithograph of the Pennsylvania Democrat on the eve of his fraught ascension, rendered with the studied dignity of a party desperate to project calm as Kansas bled and the Union strained at every seam. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,