See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.
- The United States Emerges
- Political Institutions
- Economic Development
- Expansion and Manifest Destiny
- The United States as a World Power
- Early US Society
- Early US Religion
- WEB Nineteenth Century Documents Project
[At Furman]
Many online texts, with a a special emphasis on the Civil War and Southern History. Many texts are taken from newspaper editorials. - WEB Making
of America [At Michigan]
5000 imprints from 1850-75 on line, but as image files rather than text. - WEB Documenting the American South, [At UNC]
- Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents, 1789-1997, Index [At this Site]
- Blackstone's Commentaries, with notes by St. George Tucker, 1803, full text [At Constitution.org]
- James Kent: Commentaries on American Law, 1826, full text [At Constitution.org]
- WEB US Supreme Court Decisions [At Yahoo]
- Cases of John
Marshall (1755-1835: Chief Justice, 1801-1835)[At American Revolution]
- Marbury v.
Madison (1803) [At American Revolution] or here, 1803 [At Civnet]
The Supreme Court established its right to review laws passed by Congress. - McCulloch v. Maryland,
1819 [At Civnet] or here
Gave broad powers to the federal government under the Constitution. - Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819 [At American Revolution]
- Cohens v. Virginia, 1821 [At American Revolution]
- Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824 [At American Revolution]
- Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia, 1831 [At American Revolution]
- Marbury v.
Madison (1803) [At American Revolution] or here, 1803 [At Civnet]
- US-Britain: Declaration Concerning the Convention Regulating Commerce and Navigation, 1815 [At Yale][Added 7/20/98]
- US-Britain: A Convention to Regulate the Commerce, 1815 [At Yale][Added 7/20/98]
- Henry Carey: The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial, 1851 [At American Revolution]
Expansion and Manifest Destiny
- WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Pre-1898 [At Mt. Holyoke]
- WEB British American Diplomacy, 1782-1863 [At Yale]
- WEB West Web [At CSI/CUNY]
Superb resource for all aspects of the American West. - Borders of the Contiguous States
[At WWU]
An animated presentation of state borders. - The Sex Ratio Males per 100 Females, United States, 1790-1990, animation [At WWU]
- The Northwest Ordinance, 1787 [At Civnet] or here, 1787 [At Yale] or here [At American Revolution]
- Virginia Resolution, 1798 [At American Revolution]
- Kentucky Resolution, 1799 [At American Revolution]
- Treaty of San Ildefonso :
October 1, 1800 [At Yale]
Preliminary and Secret Treaty between the French Republic and His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, Concerning the Aggrandizement of His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of Parma in Italy and the Retrocession of Louisiana. - Louisiana Purchase Treaty , First Convention, and Second Convention, 1803 [At Yale]
- WEB War of 1812 and Associated
Documents [At Yale]
The failed effort to grab Canada. - Treaty of Ghent,
1814 [At Yale]
Ending the 1812 War. - Exchange of Notes Relative to Naval Forces on the American Lakes: 1817 and Associated Documents [At Yale]
- United States-Spain: Treaty of 1819 [At this Site]
By which the US acquired Florida. - Monroe Doctrine, 1823¸ [At Yale] and here [At Northpark] and here [At Civnet] or here [At American Revolution]
- Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831 [At Mt. Holyoke]
- Black Hawk [Ma-ka-ta-i-me-she-kia-kiak] (1767-1838): Surrender Speech, 1832 [At Civnet]
- Washington Irving: A Tour on the Prairies, 1835 [At nakedword]
- US- Mexico, Treaty of Velasco, 14 May 1836
- WEB Texas From Independence to Annexation, 1836-1846 [At Yale]
- The Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836 [At Texas Republic]
- John L. O'Sullivan: The Democratic Principle 1838 [At Furman]
- John L. O'Sullivan: On Manifest Destiny, 1839 [At Mt. Holyoke]
- Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains, 1846
- The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848 [At this
Site]
The United States siezes roughly half the land area of Mexico. - Oklahoma
- Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 [At Yale]
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty, December 30, 1853 [At Yale]
- Treaty for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies, July 1, 1863
- Treaty With Russia,
1867 [At Yale]
The United States' aquistion of Alaska. - William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836 [At American Revolution] and here [At LSU]
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932): The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893, excerpts, [At this Site]
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932): The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 [At Virginia]
- Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932): The Frontier in American History, 1893, [Full Text][At Virginia]
- Annexation of The Hawaiian Islands, 1898 [At this Site]
- Elinore Pruitt Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader [At UVA][Full Text]
- Virginia Reed Murphy: Across the Plains in the Donner Party: A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trip to California
The United States as a World Power
- WEB German-American Diplomacy, 1785-1847. [At Yale]
- WEB Spanish-American Diplomacy 1795 - 1898 [At Yale]
- Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits Between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty, 1819 [At Yale]
- WEB Treaties with The Barbary Powers: 1786-1836 [At Yale]
- The Barbary Treaties : Treaty of Peace, Signed Algiers June 30 and July 3, 1815 [At Yale]
- The Barbary Treaties: Treaty of Peace and Amity, with Article Additional and Explanatory, Signed at Algiers December 22 and 23, 1816 [At Yale]
- US Treaty with the Two Sicilies; December 1, 1845 [At Yale]
- Treaty of Commerce and Navigation Between the United States and the Ottoman Empire, February 25, 1862 [At Yale]
NOTES:
Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.. The date of inception was 9/22/1997.
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