Better Baby contest at the Indiana State Fair, 1931. Indiana State Archives. “Better Baby” contests were one way that the eugenics movement became an ordinary part of American life. The
William Allen Rogers, “King Debs,” Illus. in: Harper’s Weekly, 1894 July 14, p. 649. Library of Congress, LC-USZ62- 106100.
This political cartoon portrays Whig leader Henry Clay in the context of his public opposition to the Mexican-American War and the Polk administration’s potential annexation of Mexican territory, and reflects the highly partisan visual culture of mid-nineteenth-century American politics.
Cartoon depicts Hartford Convention delegates as disloyal, near treason.
Washington reviewed militia at Fort Cumberland to suppress Whiskey Rebellion.
Transcription An Exciseman, carrying off two kegs of Whiskey, is pursued by two farmers, intending to tar and feather him, he runs for Squire Vultures to divide with him; but
