Historical Documents

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)
Treaty of Velasco
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Abolition/Slavery Timeline
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Adams Letter
John & Abigail Adams Correspondence
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Texas Declaration of Independence
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Printed Proclamation
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
"Keep Off!" cartoon
Monroe Doctrine
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Brutus No. 15- Excerpt
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)
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)
Surveying U.S. Coastal Territories
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Title Page
The Confessions of Nat Turner- Excerpt
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Monroe Doctrine
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)
John Brown Constitution Cover Page
Pamphlet, John Brown’s "Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States"
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison – Opinion of the Court
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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)
Chief Justice John Marshall
The Great Chief Justice, by Fred Rodell
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze
America: Experiment or Destiny, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)

Articles

The Steamboat Monopoly (November 1993 | Volume: 44, Issue: 7)
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)
Proud to be a Mill Girl (Spring 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Industrial Revolutionary (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
My Backyard (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)
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)
A Company Town (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Mischievous Morris Sisters (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)
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 Case of the Vanishing Locomotive (October 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Rockefeller and Pithole, Pennsylvania (November/December 2005 | Volume: 56, 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)
"Little Short of Madness" (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)
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)
Decatur’s Heroic Life and Tragic Death (November/December 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Erie Rising (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
King Cotton (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)
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)
Andy Jackson and the Perils of the Surplus (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Frémonts Open the West (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, 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)
Sawdust Pudding (July/August 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
In Defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law (February/March 2001 | Volume: 52, 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 Invention of the Sewing Machine (July/August 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 4)
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)
The San Patricios (November 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 7)
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