Articles

Frémont Steals California (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
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 Towering Boondoggle (May/June 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Humboldt in America (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, 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)
My Backyard (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
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)
America’s African Colony (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
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)
Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist (November/December 2022 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
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)
Old Years’ New Years (December 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Celebrity Journalists (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
King Cotton (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Selling Poor Steven (February/March 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
William Walker, the Would-be Conqueror of Nicaragua (October 2005 | Volume: 56, 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)
Comparing Notes with Lewis And Clark (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
From the Greek (November 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 7)
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)
"Little Short of Madness" (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Man Who Invented the Newspaper (August/September 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 4)
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)
1832 - Lincoln the Indian Fighter (April/May 2007 | Volume: 58, 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)
Andrew Jackson Censured for a “High Crime” (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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)
Tecumseh and The Prophet at Tippecanoe (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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)
Inventing a Modern Navy (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Voyage of Mercy (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Mr. Wadsworth’s Museum (September 1992 | Volume: 43, 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)
The Nullifiers (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
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Historical Documents

Surveying U.S. Coastal Territories
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams- Brief Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
John Brown Constitution Cover Page
Pamphlet, John Brown’s "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States"
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
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)
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)
Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion
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)
Adams Letter
John & Abigail Adams Correspondence
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Seneca Falls Convention
Address Delivered at Seneca Falls
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

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)
John Brown Cartoon
John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)
John Brown Cartoon
John Brown exhibiting his hangman
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)