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Title	Author	Issue
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Two Years That Made the West	West, Elliott	Summer 2024
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) The Mischievous Morris Sisters	McNeur, Catherine	Winter 2024
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Bicentennial of the Inn Where Chief McIntosh “Signed His Death Sentence”	Snaith, Holley	Winter 2024
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist		November/December 2022
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) The Man Who Brought Opera to America	Smith, Howard	Summer 2022
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Decatur’s Heroic Life and Tragic Death	Klein, Gil	November/December 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Chief Seattle Speaks to the Ages	Buerge, David	Spring 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) James Monroe: The Last Founder	Unger, Harlow	Spring 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Andrew Jackson Censured for a “High Crime”	Ellis, Richard	February/March 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) The Attempts to Impeach John Tyler	Holt, Michael	February/March 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Corruption and Treason in the Buchanan Cabinet	Holt, Michael	February/March 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) The Voice of Young America	DiGirolamo, Vincent	Winter 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Tecumseh and The Prophet at Tippecanoe	Cozzens, Peter	Winter 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Humboldt in America	Harvey, Eleanor	Winter 2021
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Heirs of an Honored Name	Egerton, Douglas	Fall 2020 George Washington Prize
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Lincoln and Presidential Character	Grosvenor, Edwin	October 2020
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) The Frémonts Open the West	Inskeep, Steve	Winter 2020
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Voyage of Mercy	Puleo, Stephen	Winter 2020
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Struggle for the Alamo	Donovan, Jim	Winter 2020
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Andrew Jackson Reinvents American Democracy	Reynolds, David	Winter 2020
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Light-Horse Harry's Tragic Fight for Freedom of the Press	Cole, Ryan	Summer 2019
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Baltimore's "Sailabration" Honors the War of 1812	Grosvenor, Edwin	Summer 2012
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Did Burr Commit Treason?	Stewart, David	Spring 2012
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Proud to be a Mill Girl	Stewart, Doug	Spring 2012
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Snapshot in Time	Strand Johnson, Rebecca	Fall 2011
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Frémont Steals California	Denton, Sally	Winter 2011
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Compromise 3: Clay and The 1850 Debate	Remini, Robert	Summer 2010
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	Huntington, Tom	Spring 2010
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) What Hath God Wrought?	Howe, Daniel	Winter 2010
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) "Little Short of Madness"	Burrows, Edwin	Winter 2010
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Jackson Stares Down South Carolina	Meacham, Jon	Winter 2010
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Polk's Peace	De Sapio, Michael	Winter 2010
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Lincoln & Frederick Douglass	Kendrick, Stephen	Winter 2009
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) A Treasure Trove of Documents Discovered in Whaling Town	Huntington, Tom	Winter 2009
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) The Awful March of the Saints	Roberts, David	Fall 2008
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) 1832 - Lincoln the Indian Fighter	O'Brien, Frederic	April/May 2007
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) 1857: The Dred Scott Decision	O'Brien, Frederic	February/March 2007
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831	O'Brien, Frederic	August/September 2006
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Andrew Jackson Guts His Cabinet	O'Brien, Frederic	April/May 2006
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) My Backyard	Gordon, John	April/May 2006
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Rockefeller and Pithole, Pennsylvania	Gordon, John	November/December 2005
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) William Walker, the Would-be Conqueror of Nicaragua	O'Brien, Frederic	October 2005
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Great Books on the American West	Utley, Robert	November/December 2004
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) We Reap What He Reaped	Gordon, John	August/September 2004
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) “What is Hell to One Like Me...?”	Miller, Richard	August/September 2004
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Aaron Burr Slays Alexander Hamilton	O'Brien, Frederic	June/July 2004
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) The Tariff of Abominations	O'Brien, Frederic	November/December 2003
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Railway Neurosis and the Birth of Psychotherapy	Stacey, Michelle	August/September 2003
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Comparing Notes with Lewis And Clark	Allen, Leslie	April/May 2003
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861) Commemorating the Lewis and Clark Expedition	Davidson, Carla	April/May 2003