Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A documentary engraving struck three

A documentary engraving struck three decades after the fact

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 bookends a presidency by its terrible arithmetic — the year of Sumter to the year of Ford's Theatre

and the postcards know every mile of it — Lookout Mountain panoramas

but the politics behind it were pure cider-barrel theater

Zachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A documentary engraving struck threeZachary Taylor: The Nation's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait minted in the afterglow of Buena Vista, when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier statesman destiny seemed to demand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,