Articles

Great Books on the American West (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Jackson Stares Down South Carolina (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
When the Hereafter Was Now (October 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Voice of Young America (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
“Texas Must Be Ours” (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, 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)
America’s African Colony (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)
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)
The Tragedy of Bridget Such-a-one (December 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Legacy of Violence (October 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
From the Greek (November 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
We Reap What He Reaped (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Erie Rising (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Struggle for the Alamo (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)
Driving a Soft Bargain (September 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 5)
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)
"Little Short of Madness" (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Park City, Utah: From Mormon Pioneers to Silver Mines to Skiers (February/March 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Nullifiers (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
James Monroe: The Last Founder (Spring 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Decatur’s Heroic Life and Tragic Death (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
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)
What Hath God Wrought? (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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 Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Mischievous Morris Sisters (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Credit and Discredit (September/October 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 6)
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 President vs. the Senate (September/October 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Railway Neurosis and the Birth of Psychotherapy (August/September 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Terror, Practical and Impractical (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

This political cartoon illustrates James Buchanan beset by figures who employ quotes from the Ostend Manifesto to legitimize their criminal acts.
Ostend Manifesto
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Printed Proclamation
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Texas Revolution
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)
Surveying U.S. Coastal Territories
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)
William Styron
The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
New Mexico - Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Black Code
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
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)
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)

Historical Images

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)
A Breaking Scene of Western Pioneers
A Breaking Scene of the Western Pioneers
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)

Collections

Chief Justice John Marshall
The Great Chief Justice, by Fred Rodell
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)