Articles

King Cotton (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
What Hath God Wrought? (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, 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)
Corruption and Treason in the Buchanan Cabinet (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Chicago: Where They Went to See the Future (March 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 1)
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)
Andrew Jackson Reinvents American Democracy (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
My Backyard (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
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)
Opportunities (November 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Comparing Notes with Lewis And Clark (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
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The Mischievous Morris Sisters (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
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Aaron Burr Slays Alexander Hamilton (June/July 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Polk's Peace (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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Discovering Gold in the American River (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Andrew Jackson Guts His Cabinet (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
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Frémont Steals California (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
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Inventing a Modern Navy (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
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Driving a Soft Bargain (September 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 5)
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The Nullifiers (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
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"Little Short of Madness" (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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The Voice of Young America (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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The Case of the Vanishing Locomotive (October 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 6)
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We Reap What He Reaped (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)
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1857: The Dred Scott Decision (February/March 2007 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)
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Decatur’s Heroic Life and Tragic Death (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
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Fruitlands (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
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The Attempts to Impeach John Tyler (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
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Great Books on the American West (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
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Tales of the Texas Rangers (June/July 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 3)
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Historical Documents

My Bondage and Freedom
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)
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)
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)
Lee Letter
Robert E. Lee’s Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and His Party
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)
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)
Portrait of Andrew Jackson
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification, December 10, 1832
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Seneca Falls Convention
Address Delivered at Seneca Falls
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Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
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Cover Page
Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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"
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Portrait of John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams’s Argument Before the Supreme Court in United States v. Cinqué et al. (1841)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

The American Cowboy
How The Frontier Shaped The American Character, by Ray Allen Billington
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
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham
Pioneers In Petticoats, by Helena Huntington Smith
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Nat Turner
Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates
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Historical Images

A Breaking Scene of Western Pioneers
A Breaking Scene of the Western Pioneers
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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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