Articles

The Man Who Knew Mozart (April/May 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Shanghaied! (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)
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)
Chief Seattle Speaks to the Ages (Spring 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Lincoln and Presidential Character (October 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Erie Rising (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
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)
The Man Who Brought Opera to America (Summer 2022 | Volume: 67, Issue: 3)
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 Nullifiers (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Proud to be a Mill Girl (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
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)
A Town Called Independence (May/June 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 3)
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)
Andrew Jackson Guts His Cabinet (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
"Little Short of Madness" (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
King Cotton (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Opportunities (November 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Sawdust Pudding (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
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)
Old Years’ New Years (December 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Credit and Discredit (September/October 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Is That Lincoln in Phil-del, as He Called It? (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Aaron Burr Slays Alexander Hamilton (June/July 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
America’s African Colony (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Bicentennial of the Inn Where Chief McIntosh “Signed His Death Sentence” (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Celebrity Journalists (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Struggle for the Alamo (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

Monroe Doctrine
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Map showing American territorial gains
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
New Mexico - Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Treaty of Peace and Amity with Tripoli
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)
Cover Page
Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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)
Texas Revolution
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Painting of Joh Quincy Adams
"Ripe Fruit" Theory
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
This map shows the land acquired through the Gadsden Purchase Treaty
Gadsden Purchase Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Argument of Roger S. Baldwin Before the Supreme Court in the Case of U.S. Appellants vs. Cinque, and Other, Africans of the Amistad
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
My Bondage and Freedom
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)
Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison – Opinion of the Court
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Brutus No. 15- Excerpt
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Lee Letter
Robert E. Lee’s Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and His Party
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

John Brown Cartoon
John Brown exhibiting his hangman
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

Nat Turner
Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)