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Tag: American History

Painting of Napoléon crossing the Alps on horse back.

Precision vs. Propaganda: Some Painters Meticulously Researched Their Masterworks—Others Not So Much

by Jon Guttman6/23/20234/26/2024
Photo of men testing an electric train in Thomas Edison experimental laboratory. Menlo Park, 13th May 1880.

Zap! American Railroads Go Electric

by Richard Brownell6/20/20236/22/2023
Photo of The Drake Well Museum and Park, where in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a successful oil well and launched the modern oil industry, Titusville, Pennsylvania.

The Small Pennsylvania Town Where the US Oil Industry Started

by Heidi Campbell-Shoaf6/13/20236/13/2023
Painting, The Mount House, by William Sidney Mount.

The Racially Diverse Paintings of a 19th-Century American Artist

by Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller6/9/20236/9/2023
Sculpture of U.S. Grant, Edwin Stanton, and Abraham Lincoln

This Union Sculptor Exemplifies the Mid-19th-Century Home Decor Revolution

by Gary W. Gallagher6/8/20235/24/2023
Photo of a Colonial Revival kitchen that was created in 1930 and sponsored by Oklahoma at the DAR museum.

What Does Home Mean?

by Melissa A. Winn6/6/20236/7/2023
A 1873 photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan captures the fortresslike canyon from the ground as both Spanish and American invaders would have seen it.

Attacked by Both Spanish and American Invaders, This Sandstone Navajo Stronghold Was Built for Defense

by David T. Zabecki6/2/20236/9/2023
Photo of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) rides in an automobile with Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes (center), and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (right). The photo was taken in August of 1933, at the beginning of the New Deal administration.

No One Wants to Grow Up and Be Vice President: The Worst Job in American Politics

by Richard Brookhiser5/30/20235/3/2023
Photo of American financier and president of the New York Stock Exchange Richard Whitney poses with his wife Gertrude (nee Sheldon Sands) and his daughter Nancy at an unidentified event, 1934.

From Embezzling Millions to Milking Cows, the Rise and Fall of a Wall Street Swindler

by Peter Carlson5/23/20235/23/2023
Rare painting of President Abraham Lincoln.

‘Old Abe’ is 9 Feet Tall in Rare Lincoln Portrait

by Melissa A. Winn5/16/20235/3/2023

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