John J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 New York canvas art when Old Fuss and Feathers'

when Old Fuss and Feathers' epaulettes still smelled of Veracruz powder and the party imagined a general could be hammered into a president

Franz Sigel 19th Century — the German-born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic

Family Chart for the United States 1835 diagrams the young republic as a household ledger — Jackson's America rendered as lineage

An engraved tribute to the Scottish-born commodore styled in Latin as fleet commander

John J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 New York canvas art when Old Fuss and Feathers'John J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 a Senate portrait of the Kentuckian whose name would later attach itself to the last great compromise before the war, here rendered in the Whig prime of his career, when the chamber still believed rhetoric could outrun rupture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the