Articles

Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831 (August/September 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 4)
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Aaron Burr Slays Alexander Hamilton (June/July 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Compromise 3: Clay and The 1850 Debate (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Introducing Prohibition to a Boozing Nation (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
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 Man Who Brought Opera to America (Summer 2022 | Volume: 67, 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)
Polk's Peace (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Tecumseh and The Prophet at Tippecanoe (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, 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)
Jackson Stares Down South Carolina (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Whangdoodling (February 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 1)
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)
Rockefeller and Pithole, Pennsylvania (November/December 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
In Defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law (February/March 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Proud to be a Mill Girl (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
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 Man Who Invented the Newspaper (August/September 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Driving a Soft Bargain (September 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
“Texas Must Be Ours” (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
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Dusting Off America’s First Dinosaur (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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Is That Lincoln in Phil-del, as He Called It? (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)
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Lincoln and Presidential Character (October 2020 | Volume: 65, Issue: 6)
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Religious Education (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
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The San Patricios (November 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 7)
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When Our Ancestors Became Us (December 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 8)
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A Better Mousetrap (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)
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Old Years’ New Years (December 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 8)
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Celebrity Journalists (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
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Baltimore's "Sailabration" Honors the War of 1812 (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)
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The Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
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The President vs. the Senate (September/October 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 6)
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The Voice of Young America (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
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Historical Documents

Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
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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)
American Progress
American Progress by John Gast
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
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)
Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Map showing American territorial gains
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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)
Treaty of Velasco
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)
John Adams
John Adams- Brief Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Adams Letter
John & Abigail Adams Correspondence
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Treaty of Peace between the United States and Morocco
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The Webster Ashburton Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
This map shows the land acquired through the Gadsden Purchase Treaty
Gadsden Purchase Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Demos
My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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
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