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ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

This political cartoon illustrates James Buchanan beset by figures who employ quotes from the Ostend Manifesto to legitimize their criminal acts.

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Pamphlet, John Brown’s "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States"

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

My Bondage and Freedom

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Adams-Onis Treaty

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Texas Revolution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Monroe Doctrine

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Texas Declaration of Independence

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Gold Hunter's Experience, Chalkley J. Hambleton

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)

The Webster Ashburton Treaty

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Articles

My Backyard (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)

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)

America’s African Colony (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

1857: The Dred Scott Decision (February/March 2007 | Volume: 58, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Baltimore's "Sailabration" Honors the War of 1812 (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, 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)

The Invention of the Sewing Machine (July/August 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 4)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Tecumseh and The Prophet at Tippecanoe (Winter 2021, Summer 2025 | Volume: 66, 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)

Aaron Burr Slays Alexander Hamilton (June/July 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 3)

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)

Comparing Notes with Lewis And Clark (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Industrial Revolutionary (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Short and Scary Walk with Andrew Jackson (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Rockefeller and Pithole, Pennsylvania (November/December 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Did Burr Commit Treason? (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

“A Fair, Honorable, and Legitimate Trade” (August/September 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Polk's Peace (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)

The Short Run of the Collins Transatlantic Line (September 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 5)

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)

The Tariff of Abominations (November/December 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The President vs. the Senate (September/October 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 6)

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)

Celebrity Journalists (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Admirable Three Millions (July/August 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Struggle for the Alamo (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze

America: Experiment or Destiny, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

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

Historical Images

James Buchanan surrounded by criminal quoting the Ostend Manifesto

The Ostend Doctrine

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas

Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878

John Brown exhibiting his hangman

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)