Articles

“Texas Must Be Ours” (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
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)
The Astor Place Riot in 1849 Was Much Worse than Columbine (November 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
A Short and Scary Walk with Andrew Jackson (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)
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)
Fruitlands (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Religious Education (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
A Company Town (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
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 Towering Boondoggle (May/June 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Youngest Pioneers (December 1985 | Volume: 37, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War and The Conquest of the American Continent, By Robert W. Merry (Spring 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Invention of the Sewing Machine (July/August 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Philanthropist (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
A Better Mousetrap (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist (November/December 2022 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Dusting Off America’s First Dinosaur (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Opportunities (November 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
“A Fair, Honorable, and Legitimate Trade” (August/September 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Man Who Brought Opera to America (Summer 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 3)
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)
Andrew Jackson Reinvents American Democracy (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Tales of the Texas Rangers (June/July 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Frémont Steals California (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Snapshot in Time (Fall 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 2)
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)
Whangdoodling (February 1989 | Volume: 40, 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)
Andrew Jackson Censured for a “High Crime” (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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)
Tecumseh and The Prophet at Tippecanoe (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin, Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, March 7, 1836
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Map illustrating the outcomes of the Adams-Onis Treaty
Adams-Onis Treaty
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
John F. Kennedy
"City Upon a Hill" Speech
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
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)
1853 Treaty on Free Navigation of the Parana and Uruguay Rivers
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe- Short Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Poem
Nat Turner by T. Thomas Fortune
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Article
The Problem of the West
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Painting of Joh Quincy Adams
"Ripe Fruit" Theory
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Caroline Churchill
"Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
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)
The Texas Declaration of Independence
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)
Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Abolition/Slavery Timeline
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Title Page
The Confessions of Nat Turner- Excerpt
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

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)
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
Map of the Indian Tribes of North America
Map of the Indian Tribes of North America
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

Collections

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
Two Intimate Enemies, by Joseph J. Ellis
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)