Articles

The Astor Place Riot in 1849 Was Much Worse than Columbine (November 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Blighted Life of the Writer, Circa 1840 (August/September 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 5)
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)
The Short Run of the Collins Transatlantic Line (September 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 5)
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)
When Our Ancestors Became Us (December 1989 | Volume: 40, 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)
“Never Take No Cut-offs“ on the Oregon Trail (May/June 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Celebrity Journalists (March 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Oddest of Characters (June/July 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
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)
The Towering Boondoggle (May/June 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Legacy of Violence (October 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Religious Education (May 2001 | Volume: 52, 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)
Andy Jackson and the Perils of the Surplus (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
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)
Selling Poor Steven (February/March 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Youngest Pioneers (December 1985 | Volume: 37, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Tariff of Abominations (November/December 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
“What is Hell to One Like Me...?” (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
They Said They Spoke With the Dead (September 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Fruitlands (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Sawdust Pudding (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
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)
Lincoln & Frederick Douglass (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)
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)
The Other Great Depression (May/June 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Commerce Raider (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

Treaty of Peace and Amity with Tripoli
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)
Argument of Roger S. Baldwin Before the Supreme Court in the Case of U.S. Appellants vs. Cinque, and Other, Africans of the Amistad
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)
Treaty of Peace between the United States and Morocco
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Painting of Joh Quincy Adams
"Ripe Fruit" Theory
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams- Brief Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Printed Proclamation
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
John Adams
John Adams- Brief Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
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)
Map showing American territorial gains
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Surveying U.S. Coastal Territories
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

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

Collections

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