Articles

Whangdoodling (February 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Great Books on the American West (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
When Our Ancestors Became Us (December 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Youngest Pioneers (December 1985 | Volume: 37, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Andrew Jackson Censured for a “High Crime” (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831 (August/September 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Industrial Revolutionary (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
In Defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law (February/March 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Blighted Life of the Writer, Circa 1840 (August/September 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Inventing a Modern Navy (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Tragedy of Bridget Such-a-one (December 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Heirs of an Honored Name (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Rockefeller and Pithole, Pennsylvania (November/December 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Jackson Stares Down South Carolina (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Fruitlands (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
America’s African Colony (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
"Little Short of Madness" (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Secret Life of a Developing Country (Ours) (September/October 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Voice of Young America (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Humboldt in America (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
All That Glittered (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Legacy of Violence (October 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Introducing Prohibition to a Boozing Nation (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Driving a Soft Bargain (September 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Frémonts Open the West (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Park City, Utah: From Mormon Pioneers to Silver Mines to Skiers (February/March 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Snapshot in Time (Fall 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Corruption and Treason in the Buchanan Cabinet (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Old Hickory vs. Nicholas Biddle and the Second Bank (July/August 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
What Hath God Wrought? (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
Two Intimate Enemies, by Joseph J. Ellis
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze
America: Experiment or Destiny, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham
Pioneers In Petticoats, by Helena Huntington Smith
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Lee Letter
Robert E. Lee’s Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and His Party
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
John L. O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Brutus No. 15- Excerpt
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams- Brief Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Molefi Kete Asante
The Real Nat Turner by Dr. Molefi Kete Asante
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Letters from An American Farmer
Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe- Short Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

John Brown Cartoon
John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution
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Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
John Calvin
Portrait of John Calvin
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Alexander Hamilton
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Map
U.S. Territorial Acquisition Map
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), Multiple Eras