A copy of the History of the Indian Tribes of North America - a collection of Native American biographies and lithograph portraits published in Philadelphia from 1837-44 - comes
No matter how you feel about today's inauguration, take heart and consider the first swearing-in ceremony of America's sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln.
Two new books take the study of American material culture to the masses by highlighting the country's iconic objects--a fragment of Plymouth rock, a presidential button, a soldier's footlocker--and us