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Merk in the process of giving a lecture to a class

Historian Amy S. Greenberg, behind her desk

Portrait of Amy S. Greenberg, Historian and Penn State Professor

General Zachary Taylor giving orders in the field during the Battle of Buena Vista

Chinese labor during the building of the Trans-Continental Railroad

Working proodection farm in America during the Industrial Revolution

May 1829: A Sale Bill poster used to advertise a public auction of slaves in the West Indies.

American flag juxtaposed into ocean, symbolizing "sea to shining sea."

The Mexican Cession was the result of the Mexican-American War from 1846-1848. President James K. Polk had promised to fulfill the "Manifest Destiny" before he left office, even if it meant going to war. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In…

This dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas shows Spanish conqueror and explorer Hernando DeSoto, riding a white horse, the first European to view the Mississippi River, in 1541. As De Soto and his troops approach, the Native Americans in front of…