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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…

The railroad disrupts nature and bears down on the viewer, with the locomotive's light shining like a jewel. Wild deer scatter to the left, but the cleared field offers no refuge--the stumps, that catch the light of the west-setting sun, and the…

American settlers travelling west during the westward expansion era of the nineteenth century.

Historian Amy S. Greenberg, behind her desk

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

The preswedentila election in Northern Mexico of General Arista

Image of a middle-aged Jane Cazneau, including two of her book covers, from The Queen of Islands and King of Rivers (1850), and The Eagle Pass, or Life on the Border (1852) Also included is the cover of a Cazneau biography, by Linda Hudson, entitled…

Engraving, Portrait of John L. O'Sullivan

A New Class of Slave States Enslaving American Citizens in Mexico