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*Includes 84 Accounts:
Who Reads an American Book – Sidney Smith
The Missouri Compromise – James G. Blaine
An Apprehensive View of the Missouri Compromise – Thomas Jefferson
A Northern View of the Missouri Compromise – John Quincy Adams
A Moderate View of the Missouri Compromise – Hezikiah Niles
How a Log Cabin was Built – Unknown
The First Seminole War – James Parton
The Monroe Doctrine – James Monroe
Lafayette Revisits America – Thurlow Weed
Lafayette's Triumphal Tour in 1824 – Thomas H. Benton
The Spoils System at Work – Colonel Thomas Lorraine McKenney
Jefferson's Estimate of Patrick Henry – Daniel Webster
Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun – Pushmataha
The Erie Canal Celebration and Other Canals – James Schouler
Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration – Samuel Goodrich
The Panama Mission – James Schouler
The Issue in the Revolution – Everett
Webster's First Bunker Hill Monument Oration – Daniel Webster
The Duel Between Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke – Thomas H. Benton
Death of Adams and Jefferson on the Same Day – Thomas H. Benton
Jackson's First Election as President – James Parton
Nullification and its Overthrow – Theodore Roosevelt
The Turbulent Presidential Election of 1828 – Thomas H. Benton
The First American Locomotive – John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
The Jackson-Calhoun Break – Jackson and Calhoun
Pioneering Against Slavery – William Lloyd Garrison
The Northwest Ordinance – Nathan Dane
The Foote Resolution – Hayne
Webster's Reply to Hayne – Daniel Webster
The Rupture Between Jackson and Calhoun – Thomas H. Benton
The Webster-Hayne Debate – James Schouler
How the Federal Union Worked to the Injury of the South – Thomas H. Benton
Garrison and His Liberator – Goldwin Smith
Three Northern Views of the Abolitionists – James G. Blaine
Calhoun's Views of Slavery, His Character, and His Personality – John S. Jenkins
The Black Hawk War – Reuben Gold Thwaites
The Overthrow of the United States Bank – Theodore Roosevelt
The Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi as in Lake Itasca – Henry R. Schoolcraft
Beyond the Mississippi Eighty Years Ago – Washington Irving
An Argument Upholding Slavery – Thomas Roderic Dew
Improving Transportation – Frances Anne Kemble
Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States – Alexander Hamilton
The Black Hawk War – Black Hawk
Why the United States Bank Was Closed – Andrew Jackson
Slave-Breaking in the South – Frederick Douglass
The First Anti-Slavery Convention – John G. Whittier
A State's Right to Leave the Union – John C. Calhoun
Chicago as a Growing Village – Patrick Shirreff
Jacksons' Farewell Address – Andrew Jackson
Principles of Executive Government – Andrew Jackson
Clays' Attack on Jackson – Henry Clay
Transmitting Anti-Slavery Mail – Amos Kendall
The Last Seminole War – Thomas H. Benton
The Death of Lafayette – Sargent S. Prentiss
The Mobbing of Garrison in the Streets of Boston – William Lloyd Garrison
How Texas Became Independent – Theodore Roosevelt
Houston's Seizure of Texas – Horace Greeley
The Battle of San Jacinto – Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Fall of the Alamo – Captain R. M. Potter
The Crushing of the Creeks – William Schley
The Battle of San Jacinto – General Sam Houston
The Panic of 1837 – Edward M. Shepard
The Annexation of Texas – James Schouler
Why the Annexation of Texas was Opposed – William Ellery Channing, D. D.
Abolition Incites the Murder of Lovejoy – Horace Greeley
Effects of the Panic of 1837 – Captain Frederick Marryat
The Murder of Lovejoy – Wendell Phillips
The Expunging Resolution – Benton
The American Scholar – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Expunging Resolution – Calhoun
The "Log-Cabin and Hard Cider" Campaign – Horace Greeley
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty Forecasts the Fate of Texas – Unknown
Dickens Visits America – Charles Dickens
Treaty with Great Britain, 1842 – The U.S. and British Governments
Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island – C. C. Jewett
Emigration Into Oregon – Thomas H. Benton
The Invention of the Telegraph – Samuel F. B. Morse
Morse's First Telegraph Line – Alonzo B. Cornell
Howe's Invention of the Sewing Machine – Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
War with Mexico Declared – James G. Blaine
How Texas Was Annexed – Thomas H. Benton
The Mormon Exodus to Utah – Brigham H. Roberts
The Mormon Migration to Utah – William A. Linn
Dr. Morton's Introduction of Anesthetic Ether – Encyclopedia Britannica