Articles

First Encounter (December 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 8)
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)
Andrew Jackson Reinvents American Democracy (Winter 2020 | Volume: 64, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Adventure Craze (December 2000 | Volume: 51, Issue: 8)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Andrew Jackson: Our First Populist (November/December 2022 | Volume: 68, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Is That Lincoln in Phil-del, as He Called It? (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Two Years That Made the West (Summer 2024 | Volume: 69, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
All That Glittered (February/March 1998 | Volume: 49, Issue: 1)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Secret Life of a Developing Country (Ours) (September/October 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Industrial Revolutionary (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Old Years’ New Years (December 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 8)
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)
Religious Education (May 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Legacy of Violence (October 1991 | Volume: 42, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Dusting Off America’s First Dinosaur (March 1988 | Volume: 39, Issue: 2)
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 Philanthropist (October 1996 | Volume: 47, Issue: 6)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Man Who Knew Mozart (April/May 1986 | Volume: 37, Issue: 3)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The San Patricios (November 1995 | Volume: 46, 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)
Opportunities (November 1989 | Volume: 40, Issue: 7)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Great Books on the American West (November/December 2004 | Volume: 55, Issue: 6)
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)
Railway Neurosis and the Birth of Psychotherapy (August/September 2003 | Volume: 54, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Mr. Wadsworth’s Museum (September 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 5)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Erie Rising (April 2001 | Volume: 52, Issue: 2)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Short Run of the Collins Transatlantic Line (September 1997 | Volume: 48, Issue: 5)
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)
The Oddest of Characters (June/July 1985 | Volume: 36, Issue: 4)
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Documents

Painting of Joh Quincy Adams
"Ripe Fruit" Theory
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
New Mexico - Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Printed Proclamation
President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification
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)
American Progress
American Progress by John Gast
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
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Liberator
The Liberator Comments on Nat Turner’s Insurrection
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)
John L. O'Sullivan
John O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny
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)
This map shows the land acquired through the Gadsden Purchase Treaty
Gadsden Purchase Treaty
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Abigail Adams Obituary Notice
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)
Black Code
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)
Cover Page
Fear of Insurrection: Chapter 12 of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Monroe Doctrine
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

Historical Images

Alexander Hamilton
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
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)

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)
Chief Justice John Marshall
The Great Chief Justice, by Fred Rodell
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)