ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections of Teaching Materials	Teacher Guide
America: Experiment or Destiny, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Children of Darkness, by Stephen B. Oates	Guide
How The Frontier Shaped The American Character, by Ray Allen Billington	Guide
Nat Turner Revisited, by William Styron	Guide
Pioneers In Petticoats, by Helena Huntington Smith
The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder	Guide
The Great Chief Justice, by Fred Rodell	Guide
Two Intimate Enemies, by Joseph J. Ellis

Essays from This Era

Title	Author	Issue
Brutal Reckoning in the Creek War	Peter Cozzens	Winter 2024
Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist	David S. Brown	November/December 2022
Andrew Jackson Censured for a “High Crime”	Richard E. Ellis	February/March 2021
Andrew Jackson Reinvents American Democracy	David S. Reynolds	Winter 2020
Jackson Stares Down South Carolina	Jon Meacham	Winter 2010
Osceola Fights to Save the Seminole	Thom Hatch	Summer 2012
American Politics at Ten Paces	Thomas Fleming	Spring 2011
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War and The Conquest of the American Continent, By Robert W. Merry	Tom Huntington	Spring 2010
The Second-term Blues	Kevin Baker	August/September 2006
Andy Jackson and the Perils of the Surplus		May 2001
Till Divorce Do Us Part	Ellen Feldman	November 2000
The Temper Thing	Kevin Baker	May/June 2000
Old Hickory vs. Nicholas Biddle and the Second Bank	Bernard A. Weisberger	July/August 1997
The Federal Debt	John Steele Gordon	November 1995
Who’s Who?	James G. Barber	July/August 1995
Presidents on Presidents	Thomas Fleming	November 1992
A Short and Scary Walk with Andrew Jackson	John Updike	October 1992
The Lives of the Parties	Bernard A. Weisberger	September 1992
The Wimp Factor	Bruce Curtis	November 1989
The President vs. the Senate	Bernard A. Weisberger	September/October 1989
Whangdoodling	Bernard A. Weisberger	February 1989
Sexual Complications of the Presidential Kind	Geoffrey C. Ward	May/June 1988
101 More Things Every College Graduate Should Know About American History	John A. Garraty	December 1987
A Few Parchment Pages Two Hundred Years Later	Richard B. Morris	May/June 1987, Summer 2025
“Texas Must Be Ours”	Robert V. Remini	February/March 1986
THE BANKING STORY	Martin Mayer	April/May 1984
Where Have All The Great Men Gone?	Richard D. Brown	February/March 1984
Two Cheers For Optimism	Robert Bendiner	December 1982
What If?	Marcus Cunliffe	December 1982
Democracy Delineated	Marshall B. Davidson	October/November 1980
The First Hurrah	Louis W. Koenig	April/may 1980
Pistols For Two … Coffee For One	James R. Webb	February 1975
American Gothic	Wayne Andrews	October 1971
Memo To: Oliver Wendell Holmes From: The Friends Of Old Ironsides Subject: Help!	C. Bradford Mitchell	February 1970
How to Get Elected	Bernard A. Weisberger	August 1964
The Rise Of The Little Magician	Louis W. Koenig	June 1962
Faces From The Past-V	Richard M. Ketchum	December 1961
Exploit At Fayal	Wallace C. Baker	June 1959
How Vital Was Reid’s Victory?		June 1959
The Marine Tradition	Bruce Catton	February 1959
Our Two Greatest Presidents	Clinton Rossiter	February 1959
“Now Defend Yourself, You Damned Rascal!”	Elbert B. Smith	February 1958
The Lordly Hudson	Carl Carmer	December 1958
Victory at New Orleans	C. S. Forester	August 1957
Jackson’s Fight With The ‘Money Power’	Bray Hammond	June 1956
Two Years That Made the West	Elliott West	Summer 2024
Polk's Peace	Robert W. Merry	Winter 2010
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War and The Conquest of the American Continent, By Robert W. Merry	Tom Huntington	Spring 2010
Frémont Steals California	Sally Denton	Winter 2011
Overrated/Underrated	James A. Michener	July/August 1988
“Texas Must Be Ours”	Robert V. Remini	February/March 1986
101 Things Every College Graduate Should Know about American History	John A. Garraty	December 1986
“To A Distant And Perilous Service”	Richard Reinhardt	June/July 1979
The Taking Of California	T. H. Watkins	February 1973
How To Make It To The White House Without Really Trying	David Lavender	June 1967
How to Get Elected	Bernard A. Weisberger	August 1964