As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...
Across furniture, silver, folk and outsider art, manuscripts, painting and more, Christie’s specialists give us an insider look at important objects of American history on offer this January.
using a 19th century case that denied citizenship to a Native American. The 14th Amendment reads that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction ...