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Historical Documents

Robert E. Lee’s Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and His Party

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Judiciary Act of 1789- Excerpts

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

1853 Treaty on Free Navigation of the Parana and Uruguay Rivers

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Marbury v. Madison – Opinion of the Court

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Black Code

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

Pamphlet, John Brown’s "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States"

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)

Articles

King Cotton (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)

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)

Fighting for the Other Side in the Mexican War (June/July 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 3)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

1857: The Dred Scott Decision (February/March 2007 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Andrew Jackson Guts His Cabinet (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Comparing Notes with Lewis And Clark (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Did Baltimore Firemen Kill Edgar Allan Poe? (November 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 7)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Legacy of Violence (October 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Company Town (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)

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 Short Run of the Collins Transatlantic Line (September 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

When the Hereafter Was Now (October 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Did Burr Commit Treason? (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Compromise 3: Clay and The 1850 Debate (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Frémont Steals California (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, 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)

A Treasure Trove of Documents Discovered in Whaling Town (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Voyage of Mercy (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Terror, Practical and Impractical (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)

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)

The Father of American Terrorism Embodied His Era (February/March 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Decatur’s Heroic Life and Tragic Death (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

All That Glittered (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Awful March of the Saints (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Light-Horse Harry's Tragic Fight for Freedom of the Press (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Oddest of Characters (June/july 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 4)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Youngest Pioneers (December 1985 | Volume: 37, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

James Monroe: The Last Founder (Spring 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 3)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Snapshot in Time (Fall 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 2)

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)

Andy Jackson and the Perils of the Surplus (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

They Said They Spoke With the Dead (September 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Better Mousetrap (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

John Brown exhibiting his hangman

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

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)

Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)