Articles

James Monroe: The Last Founder (Spring 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 3)
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)
Selling Poor Steven (February/March 1993 | Volume: 44, 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 Oddest of Characters (June/July 1985 | Volume: 36, 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)
The Attempts to Impeach John Tyler (February/March 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
A Company Town (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Short Run of the Collins Transatlantic Line (September 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
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)
Comparing Notes with Lewis And Clark (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Fruitlands (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Discovering Gold in the American River (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Great Books on the American West (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
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)
Commerce Raider (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)
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)
The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)
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)
Opportunities (November 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
King Cotton (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)
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)
“Never Take No Cut-offs“ on the Oregon Trail (May/June 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Snapshot in Time (Fall 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 2)
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)
The Awful March of the Saints (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Philanthropist (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

Article
The Problem of the West
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Title Page
The Confessions of Nat Turner- Excerpt
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Black Code
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe- Short Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Treaty of Velasco
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Surveying U.S. Coastal Territories
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)
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)
Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
"Keep Off!" cartoon
Monroe Doctrine
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)
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)
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)

Historical Images

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 Calvin
Portrait of John Calvin
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Horrid Massacre in Virginia- Composite of scenes of Nat Turner’s rebellion
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
Two Intimate Enemies, by Joseph J. Ellis
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Nat Turner
Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)