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This advertisement from the Department of the Interior, circa 1911, offers surplus Indian land for sale.  After allotments for tribal land (to build schools, missions, or other administrative needs) were determined, the government sold additional…

A celebration and ceremony to celebrate the annexation of Texas in 1845, to the Union

Cover of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume XII, dated 1843

Emanuel Leutze’s mural celebrates the western expansion of the United States. A group of pioneers and their train of covered wagons are pictured at the continental divide, looking towards the sunset and the Pacific Ocean. The border depicts vignettes…

Newspaper article from the United States Magazine and Democratic Review

Daniel Boone fighting with a Native, as his wife cowers over their son on the left.

U.S. troops bombarding Veracruz during the Mexican-American War

American flag juxtaposed over prairie, symbolizing America "coast to coast."

Article is  pro-annexation of Cuba to United States

The preswedentila election in Northern Mexico of General Arista