James Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 LA Poster when the Navy's prized wrought-iron

when the Navy's prized wrought-iron gun burst on the Potomac and killed half of President Tyler's cabinet in a single white plume

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The Wandering Gods Celestial Mechanics of Mars Jupiter traces the looping retrograde paths of the two great wanderers — the war-god and the storm-king — across an ephemeris page where mathematics and mythology share the same ink

James Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 LA Poster when the Navy's prized wrought-ironJames 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,