James K. Polk, Freedom's Champion 1846 Size:18x24 The document reads less like

The document reads less like law than like a sentence pronounced over four million lives

fixed for the lithographer's stone in the season of Mulligan letters and "Rum

Smith's Celestial Orbits the Known Worlds Before Neptune's Naming charts a solar system that ends at Uranus — an orrery diagram from the brief

quietest victory rendered in processional ink

James K. Polk, Freedom's Champion 1846 Size:18x24 The document reads less likeJames K. Polk, Freedom's Champion 1846 casts the eleventh president in the heroic idiom of his Mexican War year, when the annexation drums beat loudest and the Oregon line was still being drawn. A campaign portrait dressed in the rhetoric of liberty though the freedom it championed wore expansionist boots. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional