Emily Dickinson (c. 1847)
When she was alive, Emily Dickinson suffered from agoraphobia and poor health. Only a couple of her poems had been published back then, but her legacy lives on. The writer left behind an expansive body of work and has since become one of the most famous American poets in history. Amherst College said that the daguerreotype below is “the only currently authenticated photograph of Emily Dickinson.” In 1956, the college received it as a gift from a person by the name of Millicent Todd Bingham.
Emily Dickinson (c. 1847)
President Franklin Pierce (c. 1851-1860)
According to the National Constitution Center, Franklin Pierce led “a difficult presidency.” The 14th President of the United States was clearly a handsome fellow, but this is the only good thing that people can say about him. His party denied him a second term in the end. He was a Northerner who upheld slavery and even signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. It overturned a slavery ban in territories further north of a latitude of 36 degrees. He had been critical of the Lincoln presidency and allegedly “had to persuade a mob not to destroy his house after Lincoln’s assassination.”
President Franklin Pierce (c. 1851 1860)
