Historical Images

Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878
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)
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)
Alexander Hamilton
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Articles

Commemorating the Lewis and Clark Expedition (April/May 2003 | Volume: 54, 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)
Did Baltimore Firemen Kill Edgar Allan Poe? (November 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
First Encounter (December 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Nullifiers (October 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Case of the Vanishing Locomotive (October 1998 | Volume: 49, 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)
The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Heirs of an Honored Name (Fall 2020 George Washington Prize | Volume: 65, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Commerce Raider (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Awful March of the Saints (Fall 2008 | Volume: 58, 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)
The Tragedy of Bridget Such-a-one (December 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 8)
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)
Chief Seattle Speaks to the Ages (Spring 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
All That Glittered (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, 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 Towering Boondoggle (May/June 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Andrew Jackson Guts His Cabinet (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Opportunities (November 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Philanthropist (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)
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 San Patricios (November 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 7)
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)
Sawdust Pudding (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Lincoln & Frederick Douglass (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Polk's Peace (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)

Historical Documents

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Surveying U.S. Coastal Territories
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Texas Revolution
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Printed Proclamation
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention
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)
No Annexation of Texas
Texas Annexation Treaty
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)
Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe- Short Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown
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)
John Demos
My Favorite Historical Novel by John Demos
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Black Code
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Adams Letter
John & Abigail Adams Correspondence
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
Two Intimate Enemies, by Joseph J. Ellis
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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
Nat Turner
Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)