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Historical Documents

Fugitive Slave Bill Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

"City Upon a Hill" Speech

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Texas Revolution

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Judiciary Act of 1789- Excerpts

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), 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)

Monroe Doctrine

ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Surveying U.S. Coastal Territories

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

John Quincy Adams’s Argument Before the Supreme Court in United States v. Cinqué et al. (1841)

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)

Homestead Act Commemorative Stamp

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)

Court Proceedings and Testimony Regarding the Denmark Vesey Rebellion

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

Articles

My Backyard (April/May 2006 | Volume: 57, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Whangdoodling (February 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 1)

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)

"Little Short of Madness" (Winter 2010 | Volume: 59, Issue: 4)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

From the Greek (November 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 7)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Mischievous Morris Sisters (Winter 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Snapshot in Time (Fall 2011 | Volume: 61, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Baltimore's "Sailabration" Honors the War of 1812 (Summer 2012 | Volume: 62, Issue: 2)

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)

Plain Talk from Ralph Waldo Emerson (June/July 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 4)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Shanghaied! (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Industrial Revolutionary (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)

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)

America’s African Colony (December 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 8)

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)

William Walker, the Would-be Conqueror of Nicaragua (October 2005 | Volume: 56, Issue: 5)

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)

“What is Hell to One Like Me...?” (August/September 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 4)

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)

The Voice of Young America (Winter 2021 | Volume: 66, Issue: 1)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Better Mousetrap (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Fruitlands (February/March 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 2)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Terror, Practical and Impractical (September 1995 | Volume: 46, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Credit and Discredit (September/October 1990 | Volume: 41, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Treasure Trove of Documents Discovered in Whaling Town (Winter 2009 | Volume: 58, Issue: 6)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

A Town Called Independence (May/June 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 3)

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)

All That Glittered (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)

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)

The Admirable Three Millions (July/August 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 5)

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

James Buchanan surrounded by criminal quoting the Ostend Manifesto

The Ostend Doctrine

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Portrait of John Calvin

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Collections

The Father of American Terrorism, by Ken Chowder

ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)