Articles

Commerce Raider (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)
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)
Sawdust Pudding (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Plain Talk from Ralph Waldo Emerson (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
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)
Old Years’ New Years (December 1996 | Volume: 47, 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)
“Texas Must Be Ours” (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
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)
Driving a Soft Bargain (September 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 5)
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)
Two Years That Made the West (Summer 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Inventing a Modern Navy (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Mr. Wadsworth’s Museum (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Dusting Off America’s First Dinosaur (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Father of American Terrorism Embodied His Era (February/March 2000 | Volume: 51, 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)
Old Hickory vs. Nicholas Biddle and the Second Bank (July/August 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 4)
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)
The Secret Life of a Developing Country (Ours) (September/October 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 6)
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)
Frémont Steals California (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
What Hath God Wrought? (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Polk's Peace (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
From the Greek (November 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 7)
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)
Light-Horse Harry's Tragic Fight for Freedom of the Press (Summer 2019 | Volume: 64, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

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)
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
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)
Cover Page
Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Texas Declaration of Independence
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Poem
Nat Turner by T. Thomas Fortune
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Map illustrating the outcomes of the Adams-Onis Treaty
Adams-Onis Treaty
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), 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)
"Keep Off!" cartoon
Monroe Doctrine
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Treaty of Peace and Amity with Tripoli
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)
Liberator
The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
1853 Treaty on Free Navigation of the Parana and Uruguay Rivers
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
William Styron
The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French
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
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)

Historical Images

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

Collections

The American Cowboy
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
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham
Pioneers In Petticoats, by Helena Huntington Smith
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)