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President John Tyler
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Friday, February 28, 2025
SNAFU—The Day the Navy Nearly Wiped Out the U.S. Government
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Currier & Ives made a lot more money on disaster pictures than on the Christmas Card scenes we associate with them. The Explosion on...
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Pop Quiz—Who Rioted at the White House?
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What may be the earliest photograph of the White House--an 1846 daguerreotype taken five years after the riot on the grounds of the mansio...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
The Day the Navy Nearly Wiped out the U.S. Government
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Currier and Ives made a lot more money on disaster pictures than on the Christmas Card scenes we associate with them. The Explossion on t...
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