... Mountains Won’t Remember Us The R Morgan Nahua people New York Peru Poinsett Bridge Landrum SC poinsettia plant “Poinsett’s Bridge” R Morgan Smithsonian Institution South Carolina Tayloe Edward Poinsett Tayloe Edward Thornton Union Party capitalism statecraft Alexander I David Porter Nahua...

... for Independence. He was an ambitious Congressman and Secretary of War who oversaw the ignominy of the Trail of Tears and orchestrated America’s longest and costliest war against Native Americans, yet also helped found the Smithsonian. In addition, he was a naturalist, after whom the poinsettia—which he...