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ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collections of Teaching Materials
Teacher Guide
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
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The Great Chief Justice, by Fred Rodell
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Essays from This Era
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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
“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
Documents
Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp
"Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. Being Letters of Travel Commencing in 1870, and Ending in 1873
American Progress, John Gast
A Gold Hunter's Experience, Chalkley J. Hambleton
John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
Images
Benjamin Singleton- Recruitment of Black Homesteaders, 1878