Articles

Andy Jackson and the Perils of the Surplus (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Lincoln and Presidential Character (October 2020 | Volume: 65, 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)
Legacy of Violence (October 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Voyage of Mercy (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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 Admirable Three Millions (July/August 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Polk's Peace (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
When the Hereafter Was Now (October 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 6)
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)
Technology of the Future (October 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 6)
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)
Compromise 3: Clay and The 1850 Debate (Summer 2010 | Volume: 60, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Credit and Discredit (September/October 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Tecumseh and The Prophet at Tippecanoe (Winter 2021, Summer 2025 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Shanghaied! (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Tales of the Texas Rangers (June/July 2002 | Volume: 53, Issue: 3)
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)
William Walker, the Would-be Conqueror of Nicaragua (October 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Struggle for the Alamo (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
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)
The Invention of the Sewing Machine (July/August 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 4)
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)
Plain Talk from Ralph Waldo Emerson (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Astor Place Riot in 1849 Was Much Worse than Columbine (November 1999 | Volume: 50, Issue: 7)
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)
A Short and Scary Walk with Andrew Jackson (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)
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)
Frémont Steals California (Winter 2011 | Volume: 60, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Youngest Pioneers (December 1985 | Volume: 37, Issue: 1)
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
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 Brown Cartoon
John Brown exhibiting his hangman
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
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)
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)
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)
Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin, Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, March 7, 1836
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Frederick J. Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner- Short Biography
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
William Styron
The Confessions of William Styron by Yvonne French
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)
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)
Black Code
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)

Collections

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)
Nat Turner
Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates
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)