Historical Documents

New Mexico - Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico
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 Demos
My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Treaty of Peace between the United States and Morocco
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Adams Letter
John & Abigail Adams Correspondence
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Monroe Doctrine
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
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)
Printed Proclamation
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
A Gold Hunter's Experience
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)
Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Frederick J. Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner- Short Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
My Bondage and Freedom
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Liberator
The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Portrait of Andrew Jackson
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification, December 10, 1832
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Treaty of Velasco
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Map of North America before the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Limits
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Thoreau
A Plea for Captain John Brown- Excerpts
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Lee Letter
Robert E. Lee’s Demand for the Surrender of John Brown and His Party
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin, Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, March 7, 1836
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Articles

The Erie Rising (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
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)
The Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
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)
Selling Poor Steven (February/March 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Celebrity Journalists (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
A Treasure Trove of Documents Discovered in Whaling Town (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
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)
Did Burr Commit Treason? (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Shanghaied! (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 Mischievous Morris Sisters (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
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)
Driving a Soft Bargain (September 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 5)
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)
We Reap What He Reaped (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)
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)
Railway Neurosis and the Birth of Psychotherapy (August/September 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
When Our Ancestors Became Us (December 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 8)
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)
Voyage of Mercy (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Commemorating the Lewis and Clark Expedition (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

Map
U.S. Territorial Acquisition Map
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
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)
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)
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)

Collections

Chief Justice John Marshall
The Great Chief Justice, by Fred Rodell
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)