The Antebellum Period
Artifacts
- Chapeau of Lt. Charles Wilkes
- US Naval Academy Museum
- Canal Line Boat "Frank B. Thomson"
- Erie Canal Museum
- Andrew Jackson on Horseback
- American Heritage Archives
Stories
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From the Archives
Missouri, Slave or Free?
Over the question of whether Missouri should be admitted to the Union as a free or slave state in 1820, creative moderates brokered an ingenious compromise that averted civil war
De Tocqueville's Message for America
The French aristocrat's observations of American scoiety are as relevant today as they were when first written
Erie Canal: “Little Short of Madness”
A bold dream to connect the Hudson to the Great Lakes by canal created a transportation revolution
Jackson's Fight with the Money Power
The third in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT
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Fremont Steals California
A junior Army officer, acting on secret orders from the president, bluffed a far stronger Mexican force into conceding North America's westernmost province to the United States
Where Would Emerson Find His Scholar Now?
His speech was called "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." Its theme was the universe itself; its hero, Man Thinking. Now, one hundred and seventy-five years later, a noted scholar sees Emerson's great vision as both more beleaguered and more urgent than ever.
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Sites
- Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Ralph Waldo Emerson House
- Concord, Massachussetts
- Second Bank of the United States
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania