Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion

Picturing De Soto for the U.S. Capitol before the Civil War. [See learning resources here.](https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/rothermel2/) Peter Frederick Rothermel, _De Soto Raising the Cross on the Banks of the Mississippi_ , 1851, oil on canvas, 101.6 x 127 cm (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, funds provided by the Henry C. Gibson Fund and Mrs. Elliott R. Detchon, 1987.31), a

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