General Twiggs at the Storming of the Fortress of Chapultepec 1847 broadway wall art McKinley at the helm and

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

Garfield 1881 — a mourning portrait issued in the months after Charles Guiteau's bullet and the slow

The First Centennial Record of the United States of America 1876 arrives a hundred years after the signatures dried in Philadelphia

Portrait of Admiral Dewey Commemorating His Arrival in New York

General Twiggs at the Storming of the Fortress of Chapultepec 1847 broadway wall art McKinley at the helm andGeneral Twiggs at the Storming of the Fortress of Chapultepec 1847 renders Scott's final push toward Mexico City with the bombast of Manifest Destiny in full throat a battle lithograph in which the castle bristles, the bayonets advance, and an American republic discovers it has the appetite of an empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional