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14 mar 2009 · Nevada collector believes he has found a mid-1800s photographic image of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general who went on to become the nation's 18th president.
The founding generation cautioned against the divisiveness of “factions.” But in the absence of fully developed parties, the election of 1800 quickly devolved into a cutthroat contest.
13 paź 2022 · In the election of 1800, therefore, the Republicans defeated Adams in a bitter and complicated presidential race. During the election, one Federalist newspaper article predicted that a Republican victory would fill America with “murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest.”
“A Sketcher’s Tour Round the World” contains an account of Elwes’ voyage of some 36,000 miles in two and a half years 1848-1850, illustrated with a mere 21 tinted lithographs from his watercolours.
12 sie 2024 · Ulysses S. Grant, commanding general of the Union armies during the Civil War, served as the eighteenth president of the United States from 1869-1877. This guide provides access to digital materials, external websites, and a selected print bibliography.
Marcham House (later Marcham Park) was built in the late C18, probably for John Elwes (1714-1789) – landowner, property developer and noted miser – and remodelled circa 1800 for George Elwes, his illegitimate son; George’s daughter Amelia (Emily) inherited the house with her husband Thomas Duffield and enlarged the estate; the house ...
In this 1856 painting Gale, a supporter of the abolitionist movement, depicts an enslaved woman captured by a bounty hunter as part of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The work is a rare example of abolitionist art from this period.