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War News from Mexico, artistic depiction of US public reaction to news from war against Mexico, oil on canvas painting by Richard Caton Woodville Sr., Düsseldorf, 1848. This scene shows a range of reactions to news from the warfront. The...

To Arms! To Arms! 100 Men for the United States Army!, military recruitment poster in Millersburg, Ohio, printed broadside (notice); proclamation by T. L. Hart, 01 February 1847. This recruiting poster was part of a coordinated effort by...

Plucked : or, The Mexican eagle before the war! The Mexican eagle after the war!, satirical cartoon from a US periodical showing the effect of the Mexican-American War on Mexico, illustration in Yankee Doodle, v. 2, no. 32, p. 55, 15 May...

Havana Harbor entrance in 1841, hand-colored steel engraving from Meyer's Universum, volume 8, 1841. This is approximately how the harbor would have looked in 1839 when the schooner La Amistad left with its cargo of 53 illegally kidnapped...

Abolitionist Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), founder of the Amistad Committee that raised funds for the legal defense of the 53 Africans taken from the ship La Amistad and eventually paid for their return home to West Africa. Massachusetts Historical...

The Honorable Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863), oil on canvas portrait by Rufus Wright, 1845. Baldwin was the attorney for the 53 Africans who took the ship La Amistad in 1839 and challenged the US legal system in the subsequent trial...

The Freedom Schooner Amistad, a modern replica of the 1839 ship La Amistad, at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, USA, 2010. Photograph by Rhvanwinkle. The Freedom Schooner Amistad is operated by Amistad America, Inc, a non-profit educational organization...

The sailing vessel La Amistad off Culloden Point, Long Island, New York, on 26 August 1839; on the left is the brig Washington of the US Navy - the ship that towed La Amistad to Connecticut. Watercolor by an unknown artist, 1840. New Haven...

Portrait of Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinque), leader of the Amistad Seizure of 1839, oil on canvas by Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1840. New Haven Museum, New Haven.

Campaign banner for Whig presidential and vice presidential nominees for 1848, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore, lithograph and print by Nathaniel Currier, New York, c. 1848. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.