Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976)

David M. Potter.
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861.
Edited and completed by Don E. Fehrenbacher.
New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The New American Nation Series.

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Author Information:

• David M. Potter (1910–1971), Wikipedia.
• Don E. Fehrenbacher (1920–1997), Wikipedia.
• Michael Suddard, "David M. Potter: The Student's and Historian's Historian," Michael Suddard's Homepage.

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Book Reviews:

• Michael F. Holt, "The Problem of Civil War Causation," Virginia Quarterly Review, Volume 53, Number 1, Winter 1977.
• Robert W. Johannsen, "Review," The Journal of Southern History, Volume 43, Number 1, Pages 103-105, February 1977.
• Edward Pessen, "Review," History: Reviews of New Books, Volume 4, Issue 7, Page 138, 1976.
• Maurice G. Baxter, "Review," Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, Pages 719-720, December 1976.
• Holman Hamilton, "Review," American Historical Review, Volume 82, Issue 1, Pages 182-183, February 1977.

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Video: Lecture Courses

### David Blight, "HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877," Open Yale Courses, Spring 2008.

• David Blight, Department of History, Yale University.
• David W. Blight (b.1949), Wikipedia.

[Open Yale Courses; YouTube Playlist; iTunes U.]
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### Eric Foner, "The Civil War and Reconstruction," Columbia University, 2014.

• Eric Foner, Department of History, Columbia University.
• Eric Foner: American Historian, ericfoner.com.
• Eric Foner (b.1943), Wikipedia.

YouTube Playlists:

1. A House Divided: The Road to Civil War, 1850-1861.
2. A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865.
3. The Unfinished Revolution: Reconstruction and After, 1865-1890.

Several videos of Question and Answer sessions with Professor Foner referring to these lectures are available on YouTube: Search YouTube: Hangout Eric Foner.
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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

(Lectures addressing the period 1848-1861.)

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### Allen Guelzo, "Lincoln, Slavery, and the Dred Scott Case," Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, 16 February 2017.

• Allen Guelzo, History, Gettysburg College.
• Allen C. Guelzo (b.1953), Wikipedia.
• Allen C. Guelzo, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 1857.
• Abraham Lincoln and slavery.

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### Patrick Allitt, "California Gold Rush," Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 19 September 2016.

• Patrick N. Allitt, Department of History, Emory University.
• Patrick Allitt (b.1956), Wikipedia.
• Patrick N. Allitt, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Georgia Gold Rush, started 1829.
• California Gold Rush, 1848–1855.
• Oregon Trail.
• California Trail.

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### Hadley Arkes, "American Founding and Crisis of the House Divided," Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 14 September 2016.

• Hadley P. Arkes, Amherst College.
• Hadley Arkes (b.1940), Wikipedia.
• Hadley P. Arkes, C-SPAN.

Book Discussed and Related Book:

• Harry V. Jaffa. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 1959; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  (This volumes contains the Lincoln-Douglas debates.)

Wikipedia Articles:

• Lincoln's House Divided Speech, 16 June 1858.
• Lincoln–Douglas debates, August - October, 1858.

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### Thomas Balcerski, "Culture of the Antebellum Congress," Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, 12 November 2015.

• Thomas Balcerski, Department of History, Eastern Connecticut State University.

Wikipedia Articles:

• First Party System, Jeffersonian Republicans (Democratic-Republican Party) versus Federalists, 1790s-1820s.
• Democratic-Republican Party.
• Federalist Party.
• Embargo Act of 1807, Ograbme.
• Second Party System, Jacksonian Democratic Party versus Whig Party, 1820s-1850s.
• Jacksonian Democratic Party.
• Jacksonian democracy.
• Whig Party.
• Bank War, 1830s.
• Henry Clay (1777–1852).
• William R. King (1786–1853).
• Kansas–Nebraska Act, 1854.
• Lyon-Griswold brawl, 1798.
• Burr–Hamilton duel, 1804.
• Foote-Benton dispute, 1850.
• Caning of Charles Sumner, 1856.

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### Douglas E. Thompson, "Slavery and Religion," Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 11 February 2015.

• Doug Thompson, Department of History, Mercer University.
• Faculty, Center for Southern Studies, Mercer University.
• Douglas E. Thompson, douglasethompson.com.

Wikipedia Articles and Period Publications:

• Slavery in the United States.
• Slavery in the United States: 1790 to 1850.
• John Jasper (1812-1901).
• Nat Turner (1800–1831).
• Nat Turner's slave rebellion, Southampton County, Virginia, August 1831.
• Thomas R. Gray (1800-?). The Confessions of Nat Turner. Baltimore: Thomas R. Gray, 1831.
  [Archive.org.]
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Frederick Douglass. Autobiographies. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 1994.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: Slave Narratives. Edited by William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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### Steffen Schmidt, "History of Political Parties," Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 08 March 2013.

• Steffen Schmidt, Department of Political Science, Iowa State University.
• Steffen W. Schmidt (aka Dr. Politics).

Wikipedia Articles:

• Political parties in the United States.

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### Orville Vernon Burton, "Idea of Southern Identity," Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 24 April 2012.

• Orville Vernon Burton, Department of History, Clemson University.
• Orville Vernon Burton, C-SPAN.
• Vernon Burton, Wikipedia.
• Orville Vernon Burton. The Age of Lincoln. New York: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan, 2007.
  [Publisher; Book Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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### Susan Schulten, "The Secession Crisis," University of Denver, 19 April 2012.

• Susan Schulten, Department of History, University of Denver.

Books and Documents Mentioned:

• Kenneth M. Stampp, editor. The Causes of the Civil War, third revised edition. New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). "First Inaugural Address," 04 March 1861.
  [Abraham Lincoln: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25818.]
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Susan Schulten. Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Book Website with Maps; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

The Book Website for Mapping the Nation has images for maps discussed in the lecture:

• Map of Virginia and its Slave Population (June 1861)
• Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States

Wikipedia Articles:

• United States presidential election, 1860, Lincoln versus Douglas versus Breckinridge versus Bell.
• Confederate States of America, established in February 1861.
• American Civil War.

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### William Cooper, "The Idea of Honor in the Antebellum South," Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 15 March 2012.

• William J. Cooper, LSU Press.
• William J. Cooper, Penguin Random House.
• William J. Cooper, C-SPAN.

Books Mentioned and Related Books:

• John Lyde Wilson (1784–1849). The Code of Honor, or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling. 1838. Charleston, S.C.: James Phinney, 1858.
  [Archive.org, 1858.]
• A Native Georgian (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870)). Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c: In the First Half-Century of the Republic. Augusta: The S.R. Sentinel Office, 1835. Second Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. New Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897.
  [Archive.org, 1835; Archive.org, 1850; Archive.org, 1897.]
• Joanne B. Freeman. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Burr–Hamilton duel, 1804.
• Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805–1886) versus Turner Bynum, 1832.
• Andrew Jackson (1767–1845).
• Henry Clay (1777–1852).

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### Gillis Harp, "1850s Collapse of the Second Party System," Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania, 30 November 2011.

• Gillis J. Harp, Department of History, Grove City College.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Second Party System, Jacksonian Democratic Party versus National Republican Party / Whig Party, 1820s-1850s.
• Jacksonian democracy (the Jacksonian Democratic Party), 1820s-1854.
• Whig Party, 1830s-1850s.
• Free Soil Party, founded 1848.
• Know Nothing Party, later called the American Party, 1840s-1850s.
• Compromise of 1850.
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
• Presidency of Millard Fillmore, July 1850 - March 1853.
• United States presidential election, 1852, Pierce versus Scott.
• Presidency of Franklin Pierce, March 1853 - March 1857.
• Kansas–Nebraska Act, 1854.
• History of the United States Republican Party, founded 1854.
• Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861.

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### Susannah Ural, "Election of 1860 and Secession," University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 18 November 2011.

• Susannah J. Ural, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi.
• Susannah J. Ural, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States Republican Party, founded 1854.
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 1857.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861). Lincoln–Douglas debates, August - October, 1858.
• William H. Seward (1801–1872).
• Sam Houston (1793–1863).
• 1860 Democratic National Conventions.
• Constitutional Union Party.
• United States presidential election, 1860, Lincoln versus Douglas versus Breckinridge versus Bell.
• Confederate States of America, established in February 1861.
• Jefferson Davis (1808–1889).
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). "First Inaugural Address," 04 March 1861.
  [Abraham Lincoln: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25818.]
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883), "African Slavery: The Corner-Stone of the Southern Confederacy," Delivered at the Atheneum, Savannah, 22 March 1861. In Three Unlike Essays. New York: E. D. Barker, 1862. Pages 65-78.
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, with adverts.]
• Battle of Fort Sumter, 12–13 April 1861.
• American Civil War.
• Robert E. Lee (1807–1870).

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### Elizabeth Varon, "Fugitive Slave Laws," University of Virginia, 04 October 2010.

• Elizabeth R. Varon, Department of History, University of Virginia.
• Elizabeth R. Varon, C-SPAN.
• Elizabeth R. Varon, Wikipedia.
• Elizabeth R. Varon. Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles and Period Publications:

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
• Compromise of 1850.
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
• Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861.
• Underground Railroad.
• William Still (1821–1902). The Underground Railroad Records, 1872.
• Harriet Tubman (c.1822–1913).
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852.
• Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (1810-1879). Political and Social Essays. Richard C. Lounsbury, editor. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1995.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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### Matthew Pinsker, "The Election of 1860," Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 28 September 2010.

• Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College.
• Matthew Pinsker, C-SPAN.

Items Mentioned in Lecture:

• Michael Burlingame, "Honest Abe," House Divided, Dickinson College.
• House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College.

Wikipedia Articles:

• United States presidential election, 1860, Lincoln versus Douglas versus Breckinridge versus Bell.

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### Paul Finkelman, "Dred Scott Case with Paul Finkelman," Albany Law School, New York, 27 September 2010.

• Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School.
• Paul Finkelman, C-SPAN.
• Paul Finkelman (b.1949), Wikipedia.
• Paul Finkelman. Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents, Second Edition. New York: Bedford / St. Martin's (Macmillan Learning), 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 1857.
• Origins of the American Civil War.
• American Civil War.

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Other C-SPAN Video:

### Michael F. Holt, Bruce Levine, Elizabeth R. Varon, Marc Egnal, "Dividing a Nation: The Origins of the Secession Crisis and the Civil War," 2011 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, C-SPAN, 17 March 2011.
Also available from OAH on YouTube.
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### Paul Finkelman, "Millard Fillmore," Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo, New York, BookTV, C-SPAN, 23 June 2011.

• Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School.
• Paul Finkelman, C-SPAN.
• Paul Finkelman (b.1949), Wikipedia.

Book Discussed:

• Paul Finkelman. Millard Fillmore. New York: Times Books / Henry Holt and Co. / Macmillan, 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Millard Fillmore (1800–1874).
• Presidency of Millard Fillmore, July 1850 - March 1853.

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### Edna Greene Medford, "President Millard Fillmore," C-SPAN, 08 June 1999.

### Edna Greene Medford, "Franklin Pierce Administration," C-SPAN, 10 June 1999.

### Edna Greene Medford, "Political Climate During President James Buchanan Administration," C-SPAN, 16 June 1999.

• Edna Greene Medford, Department of History, Howard University.
• Edna Greene Medford, C-SPAN.
• Edna Greene Medford, Wikipedia.

These three interviews with Prof. Medford summarize the political issues of the 1850s.
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Other Video and Audio:

### George Rable, "The Civil War as a Political Crisis," Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 17 February 2011.

• George C. Rable, Department of History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
• George C. Rable, Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Articles, Speeches, Books, etc.

(I collected more links for books and articles in my posts on Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007) and McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988). The links below are generally limited to topics discussed in Potter's book, which focuses on political history.)

• History of the United States (1789–1849).
• History of the United States (1849–65).
• Timeline of United States history (1790–1819).
• Timeline of United States history (1820–59).
• Timeline of United States history (1860–99).
• Territorial evolution of the United States.
• United States territorial acquisitions.
• History of the Southern United States: Antebellum era (1783–1861).
• Second Great Awakening, 1790s-1850s.
• Economic history of the United States: The early 19th century.
• Economic history of the United States: The mid 19th century.
• American business history: Early national.
• American business history: Big business: the impact of the railroads.
• History of agriculture in the United States: New nation: 1776–1860.
• Technological and industrial history of the United States.
• Transportation in the United States: History.
• History of rail transport in the United States.
• Secession in the United States.
• American Civil War.

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~~~~~ Politics ~~~~~

• Second Party System, Jacksonian Democratic Party versus National Republican Party / Whig Party, 1820s-1850s.
• Jacksonian democracy (the Jacksonian Democratic Party).
• History of the United States Democratic Party.
• Anti-Masonic Party, 1820s-1830s.
• National Republican Party, 1820s-1830s.
• Whig Party, 1830s-1850s.
• Free Soil Party, founded 1848.
• Know Nothing Party, later called the American Party, 1840s-1850s.
• History of the United States Republican Party, founded 1854.
• Ethnocultural politics in the United States.

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~~~~~ Slavery ~~~~~

• Slavery in the United States.
• Slavery in the United States: 1790 to 1850.
• Interregional slave trade.
• Proslavery.
• Slave Power or Slaveocracy.
• King Cotton.
• Cotton Belt.
• Plantation era.
• Plantations in the American South.
• Plantation economy.
• Jenny Bourne, "Slavery in the United States," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. March 26, 2008.
• Abolitionism in the United States.
• Underground Railroad.
• Origins of the American Civil War.
• Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War.

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~~~~~ 1780s ~~~~~

• Northwest Ordinance, 1787.
• Land Ordinance of 1784.
• Land Ordinance of 1785.
• Northwest Territory.

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~~~~~ 1790s ~~~~~

• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 1798 and 1799.
• James Madison (1751-1836), Report of 1800.
  Available in: James Madison, "Report on the Alien and Sedition Acts," Writings. Jack N. Rakove, editor. New York: Library of America, 1999. Pages 608-662.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  This report will attract the interest of Southerners during the 1830s Nullification Crisis.

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~~~~~ 1800s ~~~~~

• Louisiana Purchase, 1803.
• Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, 1807.
  The Constitution of 1787 contains provisions protecting the importation of slaves until 1808.
  (Article One, Section 9: Limits on Congress; Article Five.)

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~~~~~ 1810s ~~~~~

• Adams–Onís Treaty, also called the Transcontinental Treaty, signed 1819, effective 1821.
  This established the first United States boundary line west to the Pacific Ocean.

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~~~~~ 1820s ~~~~~

• Missouri Compromise, 1820.
• Tariff of 1828, also called the Tariff of Abominations, enacted 19 May 1828.

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~~~~~ 1830s ~~~~~

• Webster–Hayne debate, January 1830.
  Daniel Webster (1782-1852). Speech of Daniel Webster, on the Subject of the Public Lands, &c. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 20, 1830. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1830.
  [Archive.org.]
  Daniel Webster. Speech of Daniel Webster, in Reply to Mr. Hayne, of South Carolina: the Resolution Offered by Mr. Foot, of Connecticut, Relative to the Public Lands, being under consideration. Delivered in the Senate, January 26, 1830. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1830.
  This is the famous "Second Reply to Hayne" with its stirring final paragraphs: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
  [Archive.org.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Nat Turner's slave rebellion, Southampton County, Virginia, August 1831.
• Nullification Crisis, 1832-1837.
• Texas Revolution, October 1835 – April 1836.
• Republic of Texas, established 02 March 1836.
• John C. Calhoun (1782–1850). Remarks of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 1837. Washington: William W. Moore & Co., 1837.
  Better know today as: Slavery a Positive Good.
  [Wikisource.org; Archive.org; Archive.org, another copy.]
  Also in: Speeches of John C. Calhoun. Delivered in the Congress of the United States from 1811 to the Present Time. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843.
  (XIV. "Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, February, 1837," pages 222-226.)
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, another copy.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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~~~~~ 1840s ~~~~~

• United States presidential election, 1844, Polk versus Clay.
• James K. Polk: Presidency (1845–1849), March 1845 - March 1849.
• Manifest destiny, term coined in 1845 by John L. O'Sullivan (1813–1895).
• Texas annexation, December 1845.
• Mexican–American War, April 1846 – February 1848.
• Oregon Treaty, 1846.
  Oregon Country, 1818-1846, jointly occupied by the United Kingdom and the United States.
  Oregon Territory, 1848-1859, a United States territory.
• Wilmot Proviso, 1846.
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 1848.
  Mexican Cession.
  Gadsden Purchase, 1853.
• California Gold Rush, 1848–1855.
• United States presidential election, 1848, Taylor versus Cass versus Van Buren.
• Zachary Taylor: Presidency (1849–1850).

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~~~~~ 1850s ~~~~~

• Presidency of Millard Fillmore, July 1850 - March 1853.
• Compromise of 1850.
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
  Personal liberty laws.
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
  Also in: Harriet Beecher Stowe. Three Novels. Edited by Kathryn Sklar. New York: Library of America, 1982.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
• United States presidential election, 1852, Pierce versus Scott.
• Presidency of Franklin Pierce, March 1853 - March 1857.
• Kansas–Nebraska Act, 1854.
• Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861.
• Ostend Manifesto, 1854.
• Charles Sumner (1811-1874). The Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime. The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, in the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th of May, 1856. Boston: J.P. Jewett & Company, 1856. Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1856.
  [Archive.org, Boston; Archive.org, Washington, D.C.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Caning of Charles Sumner, 22 May 1856.
• United States presidential election, 1856, Buchanan versus Frémont versus Fillmore.
• Presidency of James Buchanan, March 1857 - March 1861.
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 1857.
• Panic of 1857.
• Hinton Rowan Helper (1829–1909). The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. New York: Burdick Brothers, 1857.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, New York Public Library.]
• James Henry Hammond (1807–1864). Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858. Washington: Lemuel Towers, 1858.
  [Archive.org.]
  This is better known today as the "King Cotton Speech" or the "Mud-sill Speech."
  Also in: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina. New York: J. F. Trow & Co., 1866. Pages 301-322.
  [Archive.org.]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). "House Divided" speech. 16 June 1858.
  In: Proceedings of the Republican State Convention held at Spingfield [sic], Illinois, June 16, 1858. Springfield: Bailhache & Baker, 1858. Pages 9-12.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861). Lincoln–Douglas debates, August - October, 1858.
  Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas: in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.
  [Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, another copy.]
  Also in: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, October 1859.

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~~~~~ 1860s ~~~~~

• John Brown (1800–1859). Testimonies of Capt. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, with His Address to the Court. New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
  [Archive.org.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). The Address of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln, In Vindication of the Policy of the Framers of the Constitution and the Principles of the Republican Party, Delivered at Cooper Institute, February 27th, 1860. New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., 1860.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Copy 2; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Copy 3.]
  Also in: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• 1860 Democratic National Conventions.
• United States presidential election, 1860, Lincoln versus Douglas versus Breckinridge versus Bell.
• Confederate States of America, established in February 1861.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). "First Inaugural Address," 04 March 1861.
  [Abraham Lincoln: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25818.]
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883), "African Slavery: The Corner-Stone of the Southern Confederacy," Delivered at the Atheneum, Savannah, 22 March 1861. In Three Unlike Essays. New York: E. D. Barker, 1862. Pages 65-78.
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, with adverts.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Battle of Fort Sumter, 12–13 April 1861.
• American Civil War.

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~~~~~ 1870s and later ~~~~~

• Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877-1934), editor. The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb. Washington: American Historical Association, 1913.
  [Archive.org.]

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Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007), Part 4

Note: Due to the large number of notes I collected for this fascinating period of U.S. history, I divided this blog post into several parts:

• Part 1: The Book and Professor Howe
• Part 2: Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN
• Part 3: More Video
  (For example: lectures on U.S. history during 1815-1848; author talks and interviews for other books related to this period; television documentaries.)
• Part 4: Encyclopedia Articles and Period Publications
  (By "Period Publications" I mean books and pamphlets published during 1815-1848, and also some published before and after that period. A historian might call some of these items Primary Sources.)

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Wikipedia Articles, EH.Net Articles, Other Articles, Period Publications

(If not otherwise noted, articles are from Wikipedia.)

~~~~~ Economic History ~~~~~

• Economic history of the United States: The early 19th century.
• Economic history of the United States: The mid 19th century.
• American business history: Early national.
• American business history: Big business: the impact of the railroads.
• Technological and industrial history of the United States.
• American System (economic plan), policy promoted by Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, the National Republican Party, the Whig Party.
• Panic of 1819.
  Panic of 1837.

~~~~~ Banking ~~~~~

• History of banking in the United States: New Nation.
• Banking in the Jacksonian Era.
• History of central banking in the United States.
• Bank of North America, 1781 to 1791.
• First Bank of the United States, 1791 to 1811.
• Second Bank of the United States, February 1816 to January 1836.
• Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844), President of the Second Bank of the United States, 1822–1836.
• Bank War, 1829-1837.
• Howard Bodenhorn, "Antebellum Banking in the United States," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. March 26, 2008.
  Related book: Howard Bodenhorn. A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in an Era of Nation-Building. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert E. Wright, "Origins of Commercial Banking in the United States, 1781-1830," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. March 26, 2008.
  Related book: Robert E. Wright. The Wealth of Nations Rediscovered: Integration and Expansion in American Financial Markets, 1780-1850. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

~~~~~ Agriculture ~~~~~

• History of agriculture in the United States: New nation: 1776–1860.
• Cotton Belt.
• Plantation era.
• Plantations in the American South.
• Plantation economy.
• King Cotton.

~~~~~ Manufacturing ~~~~~

• Industrial Revolution.
• David R. Meyer, "The Roots of American Industrialization, 1790-1860," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. March 16, 2008.
  This essay is based on the book: David R. Meyer. The Roots of American Industrialization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William H. Phillips, "The Cotton Gin," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. February 10, 2004.
  (One might think to include this article under "Agriculture." It does include statistics on U.S. cotton production, 1790-1860. But the article is mainly about the industry of cotton gin machinery, patents, and other practices related to ginning cotton.)
• Textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution.
• Samuel Slater (1768–1835), in 1790 entered a partnership with Moses Brown (1738–1836) to build and operate a cotton spinning mill in Rhode Island.
• Technological and industrial history of the United States: Factories and mills.
• The Boston Associates, a significant group of financiers and industrialists.
• Boston Manufacturing Company, organized in 1813.
• Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire incorporated in 1831, but had its origins in activities around Manchester during a period from 1807 through the 1820s.

~~~~~ Transportation ~~~~~

• Transportation in the United States: History.
• Technological and industrial history of the United States: Turnpikes and Canals.
• Albert Gallatin (1761–1849). Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Subject of Public Roads and Canals. Washington: R.C. Weightman, 1808.
  [Archive.org.]
• Daniel B. Klein and John Majewski, "Turnpikes and Toll Roads in Nineteenth-Century America," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. February 10, 2008.
• History of rail transport in the United States.
• John Majewski, "American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy," EH.net.
  This is a book review of: Albert Fishlow. American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1965.
  [Amazon.com.]
• Erie Canal, construction begun 1817, completed 1825.
• Janice Fontanella and Liz Covart, "Episode 28: Janice Fontanella, Building the Erie Canal," Ben Franklin's World.
• Bonus Bill of 1817.
• Matthias W. Baldwin (1795–1866).
  Baldwin Locomotive Works: History: 19th century.

~~~~~ Communications ~~~~~

• United States Postal Service: History.
• Tomas Nonnenmacher, History of the U.S. Telegraph Industry," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. August 14, 2001.
• Electrical telegraph.
  Baltimore-Washington telegraph line.
  Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872).
  Alfred Vail (1807–1859).
  Speedwell Ironworks.
• Western Union: History.
  Ezra Cornell (1807–1874).

~~~~~ Mining, Coal, Iron, Steel ~~~~~

• Sean Patrick Adams, "The US Coal Industry in the Nineteenth Century," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. January 23, 2003.
• Mining in the United States.
• History of coal mining in the United States.
• History of the iron and steel industry in the United States.

~~~~~ Other Businessmen ~~~~~

• Stephen Girard (1750-1831).
• John Jacob Astor (1763–1848).
  Rex Ziak, "John Jacob Astor and the Fur Trade," Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon, American History TV, C-SPAN, 15 March 2011.
• Stephen Van Rensselaer (1764–1839).
• Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877).
• Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884).
• P. T. Barnum (1810–1891).

~~~~~ Books on Economic History ~~~~~
(Some books in the general area of Economic History more frequently referenced by Howe, listed by publication date.)

• George Rogers Taylor (1895-1983). The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860. Rinehart and Company, 1951; Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1964; Harper Torchbooks, 1968; M. E. Sharpe, 1976; Routledge, 1977.
  [Publisher, Routledge; Google Books, Routledge; Amazon.com, 1951; Amazon.com, 1964; Google Books, 1968; Amazon.com, 1976; Amazon.com, 1977.]
• Bray Hammond (1886–1968). Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton University Press, 1957.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Douglass C. North (1920-2015). The Economic Growth of the United States: 1790-1860. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1961.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Peter Temin (b.1937). The Jacksonian Economy. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1969.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Richard Sylla, "The Jacksonian Economy," Project 2001: Significant Works in Economic History, EH.Net.
  Sylla discusses further work and reinterpretations since Temin's book was published.
  More papers:
  • Peter L. Rousseau. "Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837." NBER Working Paper No. 7528, February 2000.
  • John Joseph Wallis. " What Caused the Crisis of 1839?" NBER Working Paper Series, Historical Paper 133, April 2001.
  • John Joseph Wallis, Richard E. Sylla, and Arthur Grinath III. "Sovereign Debt and Repudiation: The Emerging-Market Debt Crisis in the U.S. States, 1839-1843." NBER Working Paper No. 10753, September 2004.
  • Arthur Grinath III, John Joseph Wallis, and Richard Sylla. "Debt, Default, and Revenue Structure: The American State Debt Crisis in the Early 1840s." NBER Historical Working Paper No. 97, March 1997.
  • Namsuk Kim and John Joseph Wallis. "The Market for American State Government Bonds in Britain and the United States, 1830-1843." NBER Working Paper No. 10108, November 2003.
• Richard R. John (b.1959). Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995; 1998.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John Lauritz Larson. Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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~~~~~ American Literature ~~~~~

• American literature: Unique American style.
• American poetry: Postcolonial poetry.

~~~~~ Poets ~~~~~

• "Fireside Poets:"
  • William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878).
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).
  • John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892).
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894).
  • James Russell Lowell (1819–1891).
• Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865).
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849).
• Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850).
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
• Emily Dickinson (1830–1886).

~~~~~ Novelists ~~~~~

• Washington Irving (1783–1859).
• Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879).
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851).
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867).
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864).
• William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870).
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896).
• Herman Melville (1819–1891).

~~~~~ Essayists ~~~~~

• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882).
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862).

~~~~~ Historians ~~~~~

• Jared Sparks (1789–1866).
• William H. Prescott (1796–1859).
• George Bancroft (1800-1891).
• John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877).
• Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818–1877).
• Francis Parkman (1823-1893).

~~~~~ Journalists ~~~~~

• Thurlow Weed (1797–1882).
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880).
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879).
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892).
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850).
• Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
• Fanny Fern (1811–1872).
• John L. O'Sullivan (1813–1895).
• J. D. B. De Bow (1820–1867).

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~~~~~ Religion; Religious Leaders ~~~~~

• History of religion in the United States: The new nation.
  History of religion in the United States: Great Awakenings and Evangelicalism.
• Religions in the United States (not a complete list):
  
  • Congregational church: United States.
  • History of the Episcopal Church: 19th century.
  • American Presbyterianism.
  • History of Methodism in the United States.
  • History of the Quakers.
  • Baptists in the United States.
  • Lutheranism.
  • History of Roman Catholicism in the United States.
    19th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United States.
• Second Great Awakening, 1790s-1850s.
• Burned-over district, central and western New York, 1820s-1840s.
• Christian revival: United States 1800–1850.
• Camp meeting.
• Shakers.
  Era of Manifestations, 1837-1850s.
• Millenarianism.
  Millennialism.
  Premillennialism.
  Postmillennialism.
~~~~~
• Elias Hicks (1748-1830).
  Quakers: Hicksite–Orthodox split.
  Elias Hicks. Journal of the Life and Religious Labours of Elias Hicks. New York: Isaac T. Hopper, 1832.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~
• George Rapp (1757–1847).
  Harmony Society.
~~~~~
• Richard Allen (1760–1831).
  African Methodist Episcopal Church, founded 1816.
~~~~~
• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863).
  
  • Lyman Beecher. A Reformation of Morals Practicable and Indispensable. A sermon, delivered at New-Haven, on the evening of October 27, 1812. Utica: Printed by Merrell and Camp, 1813.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Lyman Beecher. Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry. Philadelphia: James Maxwell, 1820.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Lyman Beecher. Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance. Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1827; Sixth edition, 1828; Ninth edition, 1829.
    [Archive.org, 1827; Archive.org, 1828; Archive.org, 1829.]
  • Lyman Beecher. Sermons Delivered on Various Occasions. Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1828.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Lyman Beecher. A Plea for the West. Cincinnati: Truman & Smith, 1835.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Lyman Beecher. Beecher's Works. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852 and 1853.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]
  • Autobiography, Correspondence, etc. of Lyman Beecher, D.D. Charles Beecher, editor. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
~~~~~
• William Ellery Channing (1780–1842).
  Unitarianism.
  
  • William Ellery Channing. A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Jared Sparks, to the Pastoral Care of the First Independent Church in Baltimore, May 5, 1819. Boston: Hews & Goss, 1819.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William Ellery Channing. A Discourse on Some of the Distinguishing Opinions of Unitarians Delivered at Baltimore in 1819. Boston: American Unitarian Association, no date.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Moses Stuart. Letters to the Rev. Wm. E. Channing, containing Remarks on his Sermon, recently preached and published at Baltimore. Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1819.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William Ellery Channing. Discourses, Reviews, and Miscellanies. Boston: Gray and Brown, 1830.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William Ellery Channing. Discourses. Boston: Charles Bowen, 1832.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William E. Channing. Slavery. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1835.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William E. Channing. A Letter to the Hon. Henry Clay, on the annexation of Texas to the United States. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1837.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William E. Channing. Self-Culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1838.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts. London: John Chapman, 1848.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]
  • The Works of William E. Channing, D.D. Sixth Complete Edition, with an introduction. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1846.
    [Archive.org, vol 1 of 6; Archive.org, vol 2 of 6; Archive.org, vol 3 of 6; Archive.org, vol 4 of 6; Archive.org, vol 5 of 6; Archive.org, vol 6 of 6.]
~~~~~
• William Miller (1782–1849).
  Millerism.
  Great Disappointment, 1844.
  Adventism.
~~~~~
• Peter Cartwright (1785–1872). Autobiography of Peter Cartwright: The Backwoods Preacher. Edited by W. P. Strickland. Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Nelson and Phillips, 1856.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~
• Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875).
  
  • Charles G. Finney. Lectures on Revivals of Religion. New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835.
    [Archive.org.]
  • C. G. Finney. Sermons on Various Subjects. New York: S.W. Benedict & Co., 1834.
    [Archive.org.]
  • C. G. Finney. Sermons on Important Subjects. New York: John S. Taylor, 1836.
    [Archive.org; Archive.org, third edition, Library of Congress; Archive.org, third edition, New York Public Library.]
~~~~~
• Joseph Smith (1805–1844). The Book of Mormon. Palmyra, New York: E.B. Grandin, 1830.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Mormonism.
• Latter Day Saint movement.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Brigham Young (1801–1877).
~~~~~
• John Humphrey Noyes (1811–1886).
• Oneida Community.
~~~~~

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~~~~~ Other Social Reformers ~~~~~

• Robert Owen (1771–1858).
• Arthur Tappan (1786–1865).
  Lewis Tappan (1788–1873).
• Grimké sisters.
  Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873).
  Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879).
• James G. Birney (1792-1857).
• Lucretia Mott (1793-1880).
• Horace Mann (1796-1859).
• Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888).
• John Brown (1800-1859).
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880).
• Dorothea Dix (1802-1887).
• Orestes Brownson (1803–1876).
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879).
• Lysander Spooner (1808-1887).
• Theodore Parker (1810-1860).
• Horace Greeley (1811-1872).
• Wendell Phillips (1811–1884).
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1900).
• Lucy Stone (1818–1893).
• American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1870).

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~~~~~ Historical Surveys ~~~~~

• History of the United States (1789–1849).
• Timeline of United States history (1790–1819).
• Timeline of United States history (1820–59).
• Territorial evolution of the United States.
• United States territorial acquisitions.
• Oregon Trail.
• History of the Southern United States: Antebellum era (1783–1861).
• History of education in the United States.
• American Indian Wars.

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~~~~~ Politics ~~~~~

• First Party System, Jeffersonian Republicans (Democratic-Republican Party) versus Federalists, 1790s-1820s.
• Jeffersonian democracy.
• Democratic-Republican Party, 1790s-1820s.
• Federalist Party, 1790s-1820s.
• Second Party System, Jacksonian Democratic Party versus National Republican Party / Whig Party, 1820s-1850s.
• Jacksonian democracy (the Jacksonian Democratic Party).
• History of the United States Democratic Party.
• Anti-Masonic Party, 1820s-1830s.
• National Republican Party, 1820s-1830s.
• Whig Party, 1830s-1850s.
• Free Soil Party, founded 1848.
• Know Nothing Party, later called the American Party, 1840s-1850s.
• History of the United States Republican Party, founded 1854.
• Ethnocultural politics in the United States.
• Third Party System, 1850s-1890s.

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~~~~~ Slavery ~~~~~

• Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom.
• "The Blockade of Africa, began in 1808 after Britain outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves."
• Slavery in the United States.
• Slavery in the United States: 1790 to 1850.
• Interregional slave trade.
• Proslavery.
• Slave Power or Slaveocracy.
• King Cotton.
• Jenny Bourne, "Slavery in the United States," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. March 26, 2008.
• Abolitionism in the United States.
• Underground Railroad.
• Origins of the American Civil War.
• Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War.

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~~~~~ 1780s ~~~~~

• 1780s.
• Northwest Ordinance, 1787.
• Land Ordinance of 1784.
• Land Ordinance of 1785.
• Northwest Territory.

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~~~~~ 1790s ~~~~~

• 1790s.
• "Act Against Slavery, an act in Upper Canada that ended slavery there in 1793."
• Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826). The American Universal Geography. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1793. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1796. Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1812.
  [Archive.org, 1812, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, 1812, vol 2 of 2.]
• Caleb Bingham (1757–1817). The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces Together With Rules, Which Are Calculated to Improve Youth and Others, in the Ornamental and Using Art of Eloquence. 1797.
  [Wikipedia; Google Books, 1799; Archive.org, 1807; Archive.org, 1811; Archive.org, 1817, Pittsburg; Archive.org, 1817, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, 1832.]
  Reprinted: Caleb Bingham. The Columbian Orator, Bicentennial Edition. David W. Blight, editor. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798.
• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 1798 and 1799.
• James Madison (1751-1836), Report of 1800.
  Available in: James Madison, "Report on the Alien and Sedition Acts," Writings. Jack N. Rakove, editor. New York: Library of America, 1999. Pages 608-662.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  This report will attract the interest of Southerners during the 1830s Nullification Crisis.

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~~~~~ 1800s ~~~~~

• 1800s.
• United States presidential election, 1800, Jefferson versus Adams.
• Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809.
• Louisiana Purchase, 1803.
• Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806.
• United States presidential election, 1804, Jefferson versus Pinckney.
• D. F. Donnant. Statistical Account of the United States of America. Translated by William Playfair (1759–1823). London: J. Whiting, 1805.
  [Google Books; Archive.org version obtained from Google.]
  This book in notable for including some statistical graphics by the pioneer of statistical graphics William Playfair.
  Unfortunately I have not yet found an online version of this book that was scanned in full color with good color images of the engravings/graphics that accompanied the book.
  
  In the Google Books version linked above, before the title page, you can see the pocket containing the engravings with one of the engravings peaking out. After spending a few years looking at book scans available from Google Books and Archive.org, I have noticed that the Google scans are often sloppily done, contain distorted text and images, and are incomplete in various ways. Archive.org is distinguished by offering higher resolution, full color, and more careful and complete scans.
  For an example of this superiority of Archive.org versus what Google Books does, consider this book:
  William Playfair. For the Use of the Enemies of England: A Real Statement of the Finances and Resources of Great Britain: Illustrated by Two Copper-Plate Charts. London: Printed by C. Whittingham; and sold by John Stockdale, 1796.
  [Archive.org.]
• Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, 1807.
  The Constitution of 1787 contains provisions protecting the importation of slaves until 1808.
  (Article One, Section 9: Limits on Congress; Article Five.)
• Embargo Act of 1807.
  Non-Intercourse Act (1809).
• Albert Gallatin (1761 –1849). Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Subject of Public Roads and Canals, 1808. Washington: R.C. Weightman, 1808.
  [Archive.org.]
• United States presidential election, 1808, Madison versus Pinckney.
• Presidency of James Madison, 1809-1817.

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~~~~~ 1810s ~~~~~

• 1810s.
• Astor Expedition / Pacific Fur Company, 1810-1813.
  John Jacob Astor (1763–1848).
~~~~~ 1811 ~~~~~
• National Road (also called the Cumberland Road), construction begun 1811.
  Some other, earlier established, roads:
  • Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike;
  • Great Wagon Road;
  • Wilderness Road;
  • Natchez Trace.
• Tecumseh's War, 1811-1813.
  Battle of Tippecanoe, November 1811.
  Tecumseh (1768–1813).
  William Henry Harrison (1773–1841).
~~~~~ 1812 ~~~~~
• War of 1812, June 1812 to February 1815.
• United States presidential election, 1812, Madison versus Clinton.
~~~~~ 1814 ~~~~~
• Tench Coxe (1755–1824). A Statement of the Arts and Manufactures of the United States of America, for the Year 1810. Philadelphia: A. Cornman, Junr., 1814.
  [Archive.org.]
• Battle of Bladensburg, 24 August 1814.
• Frances Hunter, "The Bladensburg Races," Frances Hunter's American Heroes Blog, 24 August 2011.
• Hartford Convention, 15 December 1814 – 05 January 1815.
• Treaty of Ghent, signed 24 December 1814; ratified by the U.S. 17 February 1815.
~~~~~ 1815 ~~~~~
• Battle of New Orleans, 08 - 18 January 1815.
• North American Review, first published in 1815.
• James Madison, "Seventh Annual Message," 05 December 1815.
  [Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29457.]
  Also in: James Madison. Writings. Jack N. Rakove, editor. New York: Library of America, 1999. Pages 710-718.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mathew Carey (1760-1839). The Olive Branch; or, Faults on both sides, Federal and Democratic. A serious appeal on the necessity of mutual forgiveness and harmony. 1815. Tenth edition. Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1818.
  [Archive.org, Tenth edition, 1818.]
~~~~~ 1816 ~~~~~
• Year Without a Summer, 1816.
• Second Bank of the United States, February 1816 to January 1836.
• Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1816.
• Tariff of 1816.
• Albert Gallatin (1761 –1849). Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Subject of Public Roads and Canals, 1808. Washington: William A. Davis, 1816.
  [Archive.org.]
• Timothy Pitkin (1766-1849). A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America. Hartford: Charles Hosmer, 1816. Second Edition, with Additions and Corrections. New York: James Eastburn & Co., 1817.
  [Archive.org, 1816; Archive.org, 1817.]
• First Seminole War, 1816-1819.
• United States presidential election, 1816, Monroe versus King.
~~~~~ 1817 ~~~~~
• Presidency of James Monroe, 1817-1825.
• Era of Good Feelings.
• "Key Events," Daniel F. Preston, editor, James Monroe, U.S. Presidents, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
• Erie Canal, construction began 1817, completed 1825.
• Jesse Torrey. A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1817. Second edition, Ballston Spa: Published by the Author, 1818.
  [Archive.org, 1817, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets; Archive.org, 1817, different frontispiece, Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection; Archive.org, 1818, University of Pittsburgh.]
~~~~~ 1818 ~~~~~
• A Narrative of a Tour of Observation, made during the Summer of 1817, by James Monroe, President of the United States, through the north-eastern and north-western departments of the union. Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell and H. Ames, 1818.
  [Archive.org.]
• John Bristed (1778-1855). America and Her Resources; or, A view of the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, financial, political, literary, moral, and religious capacity and character of the American people. London: Henry Colburn, 1818.
  [Archive.org, London edition.]
  John Bristed. The Resources of the United States of America; or, A view of the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, financial, political, literary, moral and religious capacity and character of the American people. New York: James Eastburn & Co., 1818.
  [Archive.org, New York edition.]
• Henry Bradshaw Fearon. Sketches of America: a narrative of a journey of five thousand miles through the eastern and western states of America. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
  [Archive.org.]
• Francis Hall. Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1818.
  [Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Illinois; Archive.org, California; Google Books, Harvard.]
~~~~~ 1819 ~~~~~
• Samuel Putnam Waldo (1780-1826). The Tour of James Monroe, President of the United States, through the northern and eastern states, in 1817; his tour in the year 1818; together with a sketch of his life; with descriptive and historical notices of the principal places through which he passed. Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1819.
  [Archive.org.]
• Panic of 1819.
• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.
• Washington Irving (1783–1859). The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 1819-1820.
  (Includes the stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.")
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, London 1820; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, London 1821; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, London 1823.]
  Also in: Washington Irving. History, Tales, and Sketches. James Tuttleton, editor. New York: Library of America, 1983.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Adams–Onís Treaty, also called the Transcontinental Treaty, signed 1819, effective 1821. This established the first United States boundary line west to the Pacific Ocean.

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~~~~~ 1820s ~~~~~

• 1820s.
• Missouri Compromise, 1820.
• United States presidential election, 1820, Monroe unopposed.
• Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826) and Elijah Parish (1762–1825). A Compendious History of New-England, Third Edition. Charlestown: S. Etheridge, 1820.
  [Archive.org.]
• John Taylor (1753–1824). Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated. Richmond: Shepherd and Pollard, 1820.
  [Google Books, Harvard; Google Books, Stanford; Google Books, California.]
~~~~~ 1821 ~~~~~
• Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire, 28 September 1821.
• Sequoyah (c.1770—1843) invents a syllabary (written symbols) for the Cherokee language in 1821.
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878). Poems. Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821.
• Frances Wright (1795–1852). Views of Society and Manners in America. New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1821. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
  [Archive.org, New York 1821; Archive.org, New York 1821, another copy; Archive.org, New York 1821, another copy; Archive.org, London 1822.]
~~~~~ 1822 ~~~~~
• Denmark Vesey (c.1767-1822), leader of a slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina, hanged 02 July 1822.
• Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826). A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs. New Haven: Howe & Spalding, 1822.
  [Archive.org, University of Pittsburgh; Archive.org, Library of Congress, lacks frontispiece.]
• Jesse Torrey. American Slave Trade. London: Reprinted by C. Clement and published by J. M. Cobbett, 1822.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1823 ~~~~~
• Monroe Doctrine, 1823.
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). Leatherstocking Tales, 1823-1841.
  • The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale (1823)
  • The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826)
  • The Prairie: A Tale (1827)
  • The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea (1840)
  • The Deerslayer, or The First War-path (1841)
  James Fenimore Cooper. The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume One: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie. Edited by Blake Nevius. New York: Library of America, 1985.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  James Fenimore Cooper. The Leatherstocking Tales: Volume Two: The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer. Edited by Blake Nevius. New York: Library of America, 1985.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  
~~~~~ 1824 ~~~~~
• Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
• United States presidential election, 1824, Adams versus Jackson versus Clay versus Crawford versus Calhoun.
• "John Quincy Adams: Campaigns and Elections," Margaret A. Hogan, editor, John Quincy Adams, U.S. Presidents, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Co., 1824.
  [Wikipedia; Google Books.]
• Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851). Notes on Mexico, Made in the Autumn of 1822. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1824.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1825 ~~~~~
• John Quincy Adams, "Inaugural Address," 04 March 1825.
  [John Quincy Adams: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1825. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25809.]
• John Quincy Adams: Presidency (1825–1829).
• Francis Wayland (1796–1865). The Duties of an American Citizen: two discourses, delivered in the First Baptist Meeting House in Boston, on Thursday, April 7, 1825, the day of public fast. Boston: James Loring, 1825.
  [Google Books.]
• John Quincy Adams, "First Annual Message," 06 December 1825.
  [Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29467.]
  JQA calls for creation of a Naval Academy; building a second National Road, from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans; support for scientific research; and a national university.
~~~~~ 1826 ~~~~~
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), and Grenville Mellen, editors. Miscellaneous Poems Selected from the United States Literary Gazette. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, and Harrison Gray, 1826.
  [Archive.org.]
• Thomas Cooper (1759–1839). Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy. Columbia: Doyle E. Sweeny, 1826.
  [Archive.org.]
• James Kent (1763–1847). Commentaries on American Law. New York: O. Halsted, 1826-1830. Second Edition, 1832. Third Edition, 1836. Fourth Edition, 1840. Fifth Edition, 1844. Sixth Edition, 1848.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 6e, vol 1; Archive.org, 6e, vol 2; Archive.org, 4e, vol 2; Archive.org, 4e, vol 3; Archive.org, 4e, vol 4.]
~~~~~ 1827 ~~~~~
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Chemical Manipulation; being Instructions to Students in Chemistry. London: W. Phillips, 1827. Second Edition, London: John Murray, 1830. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831. Third Edition, London: John Murray, 1842.
  [Archive.org, 1827, Wellcome Library; Archive.org, 1830, California; Archive.org, 1831, Toronto; Archive.org, 1831, California; Google Books, 1842, British Library; Google Books, 1842, Stanford.]
• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863). Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance. Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1827; Sixth edition, 1828; Ninth edition, 1829.
  [Archive.org, 1827; Archive.org, 1828; Archive.org, 1829.]
• "Brutus" [Robert James Turnbull (1775-1833)]. The Crisis: or, Essays on the Usurpations of the Federal Government. Charleston: A. E. Miller, 1827.
  [Archive.org.]
• Ezra Stiles Ely (1786–1861). The Duty of Christian Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers: A Discourse Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1827. Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1828.
  [Google Books.]
  Jacksonian Presbyterian Ely denounces Unitarian John Quincy Adams.
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867). Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts. New York: White, Gallaher, and White, 1827. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. Rutgers University Press, 1987. Penguin, 1998.
  [Wikipedia; Google Books, 1827, vol 1 of 2; Google Books, 1827, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, 1842, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, 1842, vol 2 of 2; Google Books, 1987 Rutgers; Google Books, 1998 Penguin.]
~~~~~ 1828 ~~~~~
• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, construction begun 1828.
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, construction begun 1828.
• Tariff of 1828, also called the Tariff of Abominations, enacted 19 May 1828.
• United States presidential election, 1828, Jackson versus Adams.
• John C. Calhoun (1782–1850), "South Carolina Exposition and Protest," December 1828.
  In: The Works of John C. Calhoun. Volume 6. Reports and Public Letters. Richard K. Cralle, editor. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855. Pages 1-59.
  [Wikipedia; Wikisource; Archive.org.]
• Timothy Pitkin (1766-1849). A Political and Civil History of the United States of America, from the year 1763 to the close of the administration of President Washington, in March, 1797. New Haven: Hezekiah Howe and Durrie & Peck, 1828.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
~~~~~ 1829 ~~~~~
• Georgia Gold Rush, started 1829.
• Presidency of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837.
• "Andrew Jackson," Edited by Daniel Feller, U.S. Presidents, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
• Andrew Jackson, "First Annual Message," 08 December 1829.
  [Andrew Jackson: "First Annual Message," December 8, 1829. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29471.]
• Alexander Campbell (1788–1866) and Robert Owen (1771–1858). Debate on the Evidences of Christianity: containing an examination of the social system, and of all the systems of scepticism of ancient and modern times, held in the city of Cincinnati, for eight days successively, between Robert Owen, of New Lanark, Scotland, and Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Virginia. Bethany, Virginia: Alexander Campbell, 1829.
  [Archive.org.]
• Jeremiah Evarts (1781–1831). Essays on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians: First Published in the National Intelligencer, Under the Signature of William Penn. Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1829. Philadelphia: Thomas Kite, 1830.
  [Archive.org, 1829, Queen's University Library; Archive.org, 1829, Library of Congress; Archive.org, 1830, Library of Congress.]
• Samuel Kettell (1800-1855). Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. Boston: S.G. Goodrich and Co., 1829.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]

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~~~~~ 1830s ~~~~~

• 1830s.
• Speeches on the Passage of the Bill for the Removal of the Indians, Delivered in the Congress of the United States, April and May, 1830. Edited by Jeremiah Evarts (1781–1831). Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1830.
  [Archive.org.]
• Petticoat affair, 1830-1831.
  Peggy Eaton (1799-1879).
• Webster–Hayne debate, January 1830.
  Daniel Webster (1782-1852). Speech of Daniel Webster, on the Subject of the Public Lands, &c. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 20, 1830. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1830.
  [Archive.org.]
  Daniel Webster. Speech of Daniel Webster, in Reply to Mr. Hayne, of South Carolina: the Resolution Offered by Mr. Foot, of Connecticut, Relative to the Public Lands, being under consideration. Delivered in the Senate, January 26, 1830. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1830.
  This is the famous "Second Reply to Hayne" with its stirring final paragraphs: "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
  [Archive.org.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Maysville Road veto, 27 May 1830.
  Andrew Jackson, "[Maysville Road] Veto Message," 27 May 1830.
  [Andrew Jackson: "Veto Message," May 27, 1830. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67036.]
• Indian Removal Act, 28 May 1830.
  Indian removal policy.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894). "Old Ironsides," September 1830.
• Joseph Smith (1805–1844). The Book of Mormon. Palmyra, New York: E.B. Grandin, 1830.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Howe observes that critiques of Smith's work quickly appeared:
  • Alexander Campbell (1788–1866). Delusions: An Analysis of the Book of Mormon. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1832.
    [Archive.org, Church History Library; Archive.org, University of Illinois.]
  • Eber D. Howe. Mormonism Unvailed [sic]. Painesville, Ohio: the author, 1834.
    [Archive.org.]
  Howe speculates that Joseph Smith may have been familiar with:
  • Ethan Smith. View of the Hebrews: exhibiting the destruction of Jerusalem; the certain restoration of Judah and Israel; the present state of Judah and Israel; and an address of the prophet Isaiah relative to their restoration. Poultney, Vt.: Smith & Shute, 1823.
    [Archive.org.]
• John Tanner (c. 1780 – c. 1846). A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830.
  [Archive.org.]
  Reprinted: John Tanner. The Falcon. Penguin Classics, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Walker (1796–1830). Walker's Appeal, in four articles; together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America, written in Boston, State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829. Third edition. Boston: David Walker, 1830.
  [Archive.org, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets; Archive.org, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.]
~~~~~ 1831 ~~~~~
• The Liberator, a weekly abolitionist newspaper, first published January 1, 1831, edited by William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879).
  [The Liberator: all issues online at Fair Use Repository.]
• Nat Turner's slave rebellion, Southampton County, Virginia, August 1831.
• Thomas R. Gray (1800-?). The Confessions of Nat Turner. Baltimore: Thomas R. Gray, 1831.
  [Archive.org.]
• Albert Gallatin (1761–1849). Considerations on the Currency and Banking System of the United States. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1831.
  [Archive.org.]
  Also in: The Writings of Albert Gallatin, Volume 3. Henry Adams, editor. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Pages 231-364.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1832 ~~~~~
• Worcester v. Georgia, 1832.
• Black Hawk War, April-August, 1832.
• Andrew Jackson, "Veto Message" [of the Re-authorization of the Bank of the United States], 10 July 1832.
  [Andrew Jackson: "Veto Message [Of The Re-authorization of Bank of the United States]," July 10, 1832. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67043.]
• Bank War.
• Tariff of 1832, enacted 14 July 1832.
• Nullification Crisis, 1832-1837.
  Principles of '98.
• United States presidential election, 1832, Jackson versus Clay versus Floyd versus Wirt.
• Andrew Jackson, "Proclamation 43 — Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina," 10 December 1832.
  [Andrew Jackson: "Proclamation 43—Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina," December 10, 1832. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67078.]
  Wikipedia article about this Proclamation.
• Reform Act 1832, United Kingdom.
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878). Poems. 1832.
  [Archive.org, Third edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836.]
• Matthew St. Clair Clarke and David A. Hall. Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank of the United States: Including the Original Bank of North America. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Thomas R. Dew (1802–1846). Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832. Richmond: T. W. White, 1832.
  [Archive.org].
• Jonathan Elliot (1784–1846), editor. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99; with Jefferson's Original Draught thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With other documents in support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98. Washington: Jonathan Elliot, 1832.
  [Archive.org.]
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879). Thoughts on African Colonization. Boston: Garrison and Knapp, 1832.
  [Archive.org.]
• Frances Trollope (1779–1863). Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co., 1832.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
~~~~~ 1833 ~~~~~
• Tariff of 1833, also called the Compromise Tariff of 1833.
• Slavery Abolition Act 1833, United Kingdom.
• Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859). On the Penitentiary System in the United States, and Its Application in France: with an Appendix on Penal Colonies, and also Statistical Notes. Translated from the French, with an Introduction, Notes and Additions by Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800 - 1872). Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833.
  [Archive.org.]
• Black Hawk (1767-1838). Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (or, Life of Black Hawk). 1833. Later edition: J.B. Patterson, editor. St. Louis: Continental Printing Co., 1882.
  [Archive.org, 1882; Archive.org, 1882, another copy.]
  Reprinted: Black Hawk. Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak: Dictated by Himself. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by J. Gerald Kennedy. New York: Penguin Classics, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Wellesley College Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• Richard Henry Dana Sr. (1787–1879). Poems and Prose Writings. Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Co., 1833. Philadelphia: Marshall, Clark, and Co., 1833.
  [Archive.org, Boston; Archive.org, Philadelphia.]
• Theodore Dwight (1764-1846). History of the Hartford Convention: with a Review of the Policy of the United States Government, which Led to the War of 1812. New York: N. & J. White; and Boston: Russell, Odiorne, & Co., 1833.
  [Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Toronto.]
• Timothy Flint (1780-1840). Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky. 1833.
  [Archive.org, 1845 copy.]
  Daniel Boone (1734-1820).
  Howe notes that Boone's death in 1820 was regarded as the end of an era and that Flint's biography of Boone was "the best-selling biography of the nineteenth century" (page 235).
• William M. Gouge (1796-1863). A Short History of Paper-Money and Banking in the United States. Philadelphia: T. W. Ustick, 1833.
  [Archive.org.]
• Maynard Davis Richardson (1812-1832). The Remains of Maynard Davis Richardson: with a Memoir of His Life. Charleston, S.C: O. A. Roorback, 1833.
  [Archive.org.]
• Joseph Story (1779–1845). Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1833.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]
• The Secretary of the Treasury. Documents Relative to the Manufactures in the United States, collected and transmitted to the House of Representatives, in compliance with a resolution of Jan. 19, 1832. In Two Volumes. Washington: Duff Green, 1833.
  [Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
~~~~~ 1834 ~~~~~
• George Bancroft (1800-1891). History of the United States. Boston: various publishers, 1834-1870s. History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789]. The Author's Last Revision. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880s.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 6; Archive.org, vol 2 of 6; Archive.org, vol 3 of 6; Archive.org, vol 4 of 6; Archive.org, vol 5 of 6; Archive.org, vol 6 of 6.]
~~~~~
• Anti-abolitionist riots, New York City, July 1834.
• Ursuline Convent riots, Charlestown, Massachusetts, August 1834.
• Baltimore bank riot, August 1835.
• Snow Riot, Washington, D.C., August 1835.
• Cincinnati riots of 1836.
• Contrary to what one might infer from the above Wikipedia articles that focus on isolated, localized riots, as Howe discusses on pages 430-439, American society experienced a notably widespread increase of rioting and other mass violence during the middle years of the 1830s. Howe's footnotes cite several books that discuss this phenomena. No single conflict explains the upsurge in violence: whites attacked free blacks; supporters of slavery attacked abolitionists; Protestants attacked Catholics; natives attacked immigrants; Irish immigrants from one county attacked Irish immigrants from another county. Very likely these racial, ethnic, tribal, religious conflicts were underlain by economic anxieties. Why did the incidence of mass violence increase during this period? Why did it subsequently decline? This was an era of upheavals: easier and expanding transportation allowed population movements; cheaper printing allowed more widespread publication of news and propaganda; religious revivals encouraged emotional partisanships; widening political participation encouraged emotional partisanships; etc.
  For more riots see: List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States: 19th century.
  
  Some references:
  • David Grimsted. American Mobbing, 1828-1861: Toward Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Paperback edition, 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Ray Allen Billington. The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1952. Peter Smith, 1963. Quadrangle Books, 1964.
    [Google Books, 1938; Google Books, 1952; Amazon.com, 1938; Amazon.com, 1964.]
  • Michael Feldberg. The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
~~~~~ 1835 ~~~~~
• John Marshall (1755-1835), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, died July 6, 1835.
• Roger B. Taney (1777-1864), appointed by Andrew Jackson and confirmed March 1836 as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a position he held from 1836 to 1864. (During Jackson's presidency the number of justices on the Supreme Court was increased from seven to nine (1837) and by the end of his term Jackson had appointed six justices.)
• Texas Revolution, October 1835 – April 1836.
• Second Seminole War, December 1835 – August 1842.
• Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875). Lectures on Revivals of Religion. New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835.
  [Archive.org.]
• "A Yankee" [Joseph Holt Ingraham (1809–1860)]. The South-West. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• "A Native Georgian" [Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790–1870)]. Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c: In the First Half-Century of the Republic. Augusta: The S.R. Sentinel Office, 1835. Second Edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850.
  [Archive.org, 1835; Archive.org, 1850.]
• Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872). Foreign Conspiracy against the Liberties of the United States. New York: Leavitt, Lord, & Co., 1835.
  [Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, California.]
  Samuel F. B. Morse, editor. The Proscribed German Student: being a sketch of some interesting incidents in the life and melancholy death of the late Lewis Clausing. New York: Van Nostrand & Dwight, 1836.
  [Archive.org, Harvard; Archive.org, New York Public Library.]
  Samuel F. B. Morse, editor. Confessions of a French Catholic Priest: To which are Added Warnings to the People of the United. New York: John S. Taylor, 1837.
  [Archive.org.]
• Timothy Pitkin (1766-1849). A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States of America. New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1835.
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, another copy.]
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859). Democracy in America. 1835; 1840.
  [Wikipedia.]
  Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. London: Saunders and Otley, 1835; 1840. New York: J & H. G. Langley.
  [Archive.org, Princeton Theological Seminary Library, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, Princeton Theological Seminary Library, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, New York Public Library, 1841, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, New York Public Library, 1841, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, New York Public Library, 1843, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, New York Public Library, 1843, vol 2 of 2.]
  Democracy in America. Translated by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Democracy in America and Two Essays on America. Translated by Gerald Bevan. London: Penguin Classics, 2003.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
  Democracy in America. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New York: Library of America, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
~~~~~ 1836 ~~~~~
• Republic of Texas, established 02 March 1836.
• Battle of San Jacinto, 21 April 1836.
• Specie Circular, effective 15 August 1836.
• United States presidential election, 1836, Van Buren versus Harrison versus White versus Webster versus Mangum.
• Andrew Jackson, "Eighth Annual Message," 05 December 1836.
  [Andrew Jackson: "Eighth Annual Message," December 5, 1836. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29478.]
• Robert Baird (1798-1863). Histoire des Sociétés de Tempérance des Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Paris: L. Hachette, 1836.
  [Archive.org.]
• Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879). Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836. Also: The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 1836. Also: Edinburgh: William Oliphant Jun. & Co., 1837.
  [Archive.org, American Anti-Slavery Society; Archive.org, The Anti-Slavery Examiner; Archive.org, Edinburgh.]
  Reprinted: Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke. On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters. Introduction by Mark Perry. New York: Penguin Classics, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873). An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. New York, 1836.
  [Archive.org.]
  Reprinted: Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke. On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters. Introduction by Mark Perry. New York: Penguin Classics, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Washington Irving (1783–1859). Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836. London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, New York, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, New York, vol 2 of 2.]
  Also in: Washington Irving. Three Western Narratives. Edited by James P. Ronda. New York: Library of America, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jarena Lee (1783–1864). Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel. 1836. Philadelphia, 1849.
  [Archive.org, 1849.]
• "A Citizen of the United States" [Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839)]. The War in Texas. Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1836.
  [Archive.org.]
• Maria Monk (1816-1849). Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. 1836.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1837 ~~~~~
• John C. Calhoun (1782–1850). Remarks of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 1837. Washington: William W. Moore & Co., 1837.
  Better know today as: Slavery a Positive Good.
  [Wikisource.org; Archive.org; Archive.org, another copy.]
  Also in: Speeches of John C. Calhoun. Delivered in the Congress of the United States from 1811 to the Present Time. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1843.
  (XIV. "Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, February, 1837," pages 222-226.)
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, another copy.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 1837.
• Andrew Jackson, "Farewell Address," 04 March 1837.
  [Andrew Jackson: "Farewell Address," March 4, 1837. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67087.]
  Jackson's Farewell Address was written by Chief Justice Roger Taney.
• Presidency of Martin Van Buren, March 1837 – March 1841.
• "Martin Van Buren," Edited by Joel Silbey, U.S. Presidents, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
• Martin Van Buren (1782–1862). The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920.
  [Archive.org.]
• Panic of 1837.
  "The years 1837 to 1844 were, generally speaking, years of deflation in wages and prices."
  The Panic of 1837 initiated an economic depression that lasted through the early 1840s. It had widespread effects, including stimulating westward migration and the defeat of Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election.
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880), Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879), Grace Douglass (1782–1842). An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States. New York: William S. Dorr, 1837. Second Edition, Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838.
  [Archive.org, 1837; Archive.org, 1838, Library of Congress; Archive.org, 1838, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets.]
  Reprinted: Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke. On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters. Introduction by Mark Perry. New York: Penguin Classics, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), "The American Scholar," 31 August 1837.
  (In Emerson's collections of 1849 and 1856 noted below.)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). Twice-Told Tales. Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Boston Public Library; Archive.org, California.]
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876). Society in America. London: Saunders and Otley, 1837 (in three volumes). New York: Saunders and Otley, 1837 (in two volumes).
  [Archive.org, New York, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, New York, vol 2 of 2.]
• Telegraphs for the United States: Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting a Report upon the subject of a System of Telegraphs for the United States. Washington, D.C.: Thomas Allen, 1837.
  [Archive.org.]
• Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895). The Bible Against Slavery: An Inquiry into the Patriarchal and Mosaic Systems on the Subject of Human Rights. New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1838 ~~~~~
• United States Exploring Expedition (also know as the Wilkes Expedition), 1838-1842.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), "Divinity School Address," 15 July 1838.
  (In Emerson's collections of 1849 and 1856 noted below.)
• William J. Duane (1780–1865). Narrative and Correspondence Concerning the Removal of the Deposites, and Occurrences Connected Therewith. Philadelphia, 1838.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873). Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838.
  [Archive.org.]
  Reprinted: Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke. On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters. Introduction by Mark Perry. New York: Penguin Classics, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Harper (1790-1847). Memoir on Slavery. Charleston: James S. Burges, 1838.
  [Archive.org.]
• Harriet Martineau (1802–1876). Retrospect of Western Travel. London: Saunders and Otley, 1838 (in three volumes). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838 (in two volumes).
  [Archive.org, London, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, London, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, London, vol 3 of 3;
  Archive.org, New York, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, New York, vol 2 of 2.]
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, New York; Archive.org, London.]
  Also in: Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry and Tales. Edited by Patrick F. Quinn. New York: Library of America, 1984.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
~~~~~ 1839 ~~~~~
• Michel Chevalier (1806-1879). Society, Manners and Politics in the United States; being a series of letters on North America. Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839.
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, another copy.]
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882). The Voyage of the Beagle.
  First edition published as: Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, Volume III: Journal and Remarks. 1832–1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839.
  Second edition published as: Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle Round the World. London: John Murray, 1845.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1839; Archive.org, 1845.]
• H. A. S. Dearborn (1783-1851). Letters on the Internal Improvements and Commerce of the West. Boston: Henry F. Lewis, 1839.
  [Archive.org.]
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Experimental Researches in Electricity. Volume 1, London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1839. Volume 2, London: Richard and John Edward Taylor, 1844. Volume 3, London: Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1855.
  [Google Books, vol 1, 1839; Google Books, vol 2, 1844; Google Books, vol 3, 1855.]
• Jared Sparks (1789–1866). The Life of George Washington. Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, 1839. London: Henry Colburn, 1839.
  (First published in volume one of The Writings of George Washington, Twelve Volumes, Boston: American Stationers' Company, John B. Russell, 1834-1837.)
  [Archive.org, 1837, California; Archive.org, 1837, New York Public Library; Archive.org, 1839, Boston; Archive.org, 1839, London, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, 1839, London, vol 2 of 2.]
• Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895). American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• La Amistad slave revolt, July 1839.
  United States v. The Amistad, 1841.
  John Quincy Adams (1767–1848). Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States: in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad. New York: S. W. Benedict, 1841.
  [Archive.org, John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library.]

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~~~~~ 1840s ~~~~~

• 1840s.
• World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, June 1840.
• United States presidential election, 1840, Harrison versus Van Buren.
• Abigail Adams (1744–1818). Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Second edition, in two volumes. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840. Fourth edition, Revised and Enlarged, Boston: Wilkins, Carter, and Company, 1848.
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, Second edition, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, Second edition, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, Fourth edition.]
• Albert Brisbane (1809–1890). Social Destiny of Man: or, Association and Reorganization of Industry. C.F. Stollmeyer, 1840.
  [Archive.org.]
• William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), editor. Selections from the American Poets. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.
  [Archive.org.]
• Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815–1882). Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840.
  [Wikipedia; Google Books.]
  Also in: Two Years Before the Mast and Other Voyages. Edited by Thomas Philbrick. New York: Library of America, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
~~~~~ 1841 ~~~~~
• William Henry Harrison: Presidency (1841), March - April 1841.
• William Henry Harrison, "Inaugural Address," 04 March 1841.
  [William Henry Harrison: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1841. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25813.]
• Presidency of John Tyler, April 1841 - March 1845.
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881). On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History. London: James Fraser, 1841. Cincinnati: U. P. James, 1842.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, London; Archive.org, Cincinnati.]
• George Catlin (1796–1872).
  Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1841.
  Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: in a series of Letters and Notes Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing, Sixth Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848.
  Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: in a series of Letters and Notes Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing, Ninth Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857.
  Illustrations of the Manners, Customs & Condition of the North American Indians. With Letters and Notes Written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing. London: Chatto & Windus, 1876.
  [Archive.org, 1841, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, 1848, vol 2 of 2;
  Archive.org, 1857, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, 1857, vol 2 of 2;
  Archive.org, 1876, vol 1 of 2, with Colored Engravings;
  Archive.org, 1876, vol 2 of 2, with Colored Engravings.]
  Reprinted: George Catlin. Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians. Two Volumes. Dover Publications, 1973.
  [Amazon.com, vol 1 of 2; Amazon.com, vol 2 of 2.]
  Reprinted: George Catlin. North American Indians. Introduction by Peter Matthiessen. Penguin Classics, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Essays. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. London: James Fraser, 1841. (The London edition has a Preface by Thomas Carlyle.)
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Boston; Archive.org, London.]
• Dorr Rebellion, Rhode Island, 1841-1842.
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Graham's Magazine (Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine), Volume 18, Number 4, April 1841, Pages 166-179.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Tales (1845) noted below.
  Also in: Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry and Tales. Edited by Patrick F. Quinn. New York: Library of America, 1984.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
~~~~~ 1842 ~~~~~
• Tariff of 1842, also called the Black Tariff.
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870). American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857). The Poets and Poetry of America. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842.
  [Wikipedia; Google Books; Archive.org.]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Poems on Slavery. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Boston Public Library; Archive.org, Middlebury College; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• Joseph Tracy (1793–1874). The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield. Boston: Tappan and Dennet, 1842.
  [Archive.org, Princeton Theological Seminary Library; Archive.org, Princeton Theological Seminary Library, another copy.]
~~~~~ 1843 ~~~~~
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). Letters from New-York. New York: Charles S. Francis and Company, 1843.
  [Archive.org.]
• D. L. Dix (1802-1887). Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting against the confinement of insane persons and idiots in almshouses and prisons]. Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1843.
  [Archive.org.]
• Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859). Critical and Historical Essays. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]
• William H. Prescott (1796–1859). History of the Conquest of Mexico. 1843. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1844. Eighth edition, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847.
  [Archive.org, 1844, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, 1844, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, 1844, vol 3 of 3;
  Archive.org, 1847, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, 1847, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, 1847, vol 3 of 3.]
  William H. Prescott. History of the Conquest of Mexico. New York: Modern Library / Random House, 2001.
  [2001, Publisher; 2001, Google Books; 2001, Amazon.com.]
• "The steam-powered rotary printing press is invented by Richard March Hoe (1812–1886) in the United States in 1843."
~~~~~ 1844 ~~~~~
• Morse demonstrates the electric telegraph, May 1844.
• United States presidential election, 1844, Polk versus Clay.
• Robert Baird (1798-1863). Religion in America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844.
  [Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, New York Public Library, another copy; Archive.org, Princeton Theological Seminary Library; Archive.org, Princeton Theological Seminary Library, another copy.]
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1845.]
• John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870). Defence of the Whigs. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844.
  [Archive.org.]
• George Lippard (1822–1854). The Monks of Monk Hall, 1844. Retitled in 1845: The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall.
  [Archive.org, 1876 edition; Amazon.com, 1995.]
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891). Poems. London: C. E. Mudie, 1844.
  [Archive.org.]
• Brantz Mayer (1809-1879). Mexico as it was and as it is. New York: J. Winchester, New World Press, 1844. Third Edition, Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & Company, 1847.
  [Archive.org, 1844; Archive.org, 1847.]
~~~~~ 1845 ~~~~~
• Presidency of James K. Polk, March 1845 - March 1849.
• James K. Polk, "Inaugural Address," 04 March 1845.
  [James K. Polk: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1845. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25814.]
• Manifest destiny, term coined in 1845 by John L. O'Sullivan (1813–1895).
• James K. Polk, "First Annual Message," 02 December 1845.
  [James K. Polk: "First Annual Message," December 2, 1845. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29486.]
• Texas annexation, December 1845.
• Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). Letters from New York, Second Series. New York: Charles S. Francis and Company, 1845.
  [Archive.org, with adverts; Archive.org.]
• D. L. Dix (1802-1887). Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States. Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1845.
  [Archive.org.]
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Frederick Douglass. Autobiographies. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 1994.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: Slave Narratives. Edited by William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895). The Condition of the Working Class in England. Leipzig, 1845. Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky. New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1887. London: Penguin Books, 2005.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1887; Publisher, 2005; Amazon.com, 2005.]
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850). Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1855.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1845; Archive.org, 1855.]
• Richard Fuller (1804-1876) and Francis Wayland (1796–1865). Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution. New York: Lewis Colby, 1845.
  [Archive.org, Wellesley College Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• James Henry Hammond (1807–1864). Gov. Hammond's Letters on Southern Slavery: Addressed to Thomas Clarkson, the English Abolitionist. Charleston: Walker & Burke, 1845. Columbia: Allen, McCarter, & Co., 1845.
  [Archive.org, Charleston, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets; Archive.org, Charleston, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Columbia, Library of Congress.]
  Also in: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina. New York: J. F. Trow & Co., 1866. Pages 114-198.
  [Archive.org.]
• Charles Lyell (1797–1875). Travels in North America; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. London: John Murray, 1845. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. (USA title: Travels in North America, in the years 1841-2; with Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia.)
  [Archive.org, London, set 1, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, London, set 1, vol 2 of 2;
  Archive.org, London, set 2, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, London, set 2, vol 2 of 2;
  Archive.org, New York, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, New York, vol 2 of 2.]
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). Tales. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
  [Archive.org.]
• Lysander Spooner (1808-1887). The Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1845. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Including Parts First and Second. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1847.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1845; Archive.org, 1847.]
• Young America movement, 1840s-1850s.
  (Democratic Party ideology promoted by O'Sullivan's Democratic Review.)
• George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, c. 1845.
~~~~~ 1846 ~~~~~
• Mexican–American War, April 1846 – February 1848.
• Oregon Treaty, 1846.
  Oregon Country, 1818-1846, jointly occupied by the United Kingdom and the United States.
  Oregon Territory, 1848-1859, a United States territory.
• James K. Polk, "Second Annual Message," 08 December 1846.
  [James K. Polk: "Second Annual Message," December 8, 1846. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29487.]
• Wilmot Proviso, 1846.
  Although never enacted, the Wilmot Proviso raised the issue of the status slavery in territories and whether new states constructed from territories could permit or forbid slavery.
• Walker tariff, 1846.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). Mosses from an Old Manse. London: Wiley & Putnam, 1846.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1846, Part 1; Archive.org, 1846, Part 2.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1846; Archive.org, 1847 revised editon.]
• Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1790-1868). A General View of the United States. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846.
  [Archive.org.]
• Smithsonian Institution, finally founded in 1846 after much delay by politicians.
  Joseph Henry (1797–1878), the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
  American Association for the Advancement of Science, created in 1848.
~~~~~ 1847 ~~~~~
• James K. Polk, "Third Annual Message," 07 December 1847.
  [James K. Polk: "Third Annual Message," December 7, 1847. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29488.]
• William Wells Brown (1814–1884). Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1847.
  [Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets.]
  Also in: William Wells Brown. Clotel & Other Writings. Edited by Ezra Greenspan. New York: Library of America, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: Slave Narratives. Edited by William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Albert Gallatin (1761–1849). Peace with Mexico. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1847.
  [Archive.org]
  Also in: The Writings of Albert Gallatin, Volume 3. Henry Adams, editor. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Pages 555-591.
  [Archive.org]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie. 1847.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 6e, 1848.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• William H. Prescott (1796–1859). History of the Conquest of Peru. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, Princeton Theological Seminary; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, Princeton Theological Seminary.]
~~~~~ 1848 ~~~~~
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 1848.
  Mexican Cession.
  Gadsden Purchase, 1853.
• Revolutions of 1848, Europe.
• California Gold Rush, 1848–1855.
  Robert Whaples, "California Gold Rush," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. March 16, 2008.
• Free Soil Party, 1848-1854.
• Seneca Falls Convention, July 1848.
• James K. Polk, "Fourth Annual Message," 05 December 1848.
  [James K. Polk: "Fourth Annual Message," December 5, 1848. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29489.]
• Albert Gallatin (1761–1849). Expenses of the War. Washington: J.T. Towers, 1848.
  [Archive.org.]
• United States presidential election, 1848, Taylor versus Cass versus Van Buren.
• Johnson J. Hooper (1815–1862). Simon Suggs' Adventures and Travels. [Also titled: Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers.] Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1848.
  [Archive.org, 1848 (this volume also contains The Widow Rugby's Husband).]
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891). The Biglow Papers. 1848. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.
  [Archive.org, Boston, 1859.]
• Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1895). The Communist Manifesto. February 1848.
  [Wikipedia.]
  Reprinted: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Translated by Samuel Moore. With an Introduction and Notes by Gareth Stedman Jones. London: Penguin Classics, 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Brantz Mayer (1809-1879). History of the War between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin. New York & London: Wiley and Putnam, 1848.
  [Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• E. G. Squier (1821–1888) and E. H. Davis (1811–1888). Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. New York: Bartlett & Welford; Cincinnati: J. A. & U. P. James, 1848.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Reprinted: E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis. Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Edited by David J. Meltzer. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1998.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
~~~~~ 1849 ~~~~~
• Zachary Taylor: Presidency (1849–1850), March 1849 - July 1850.
• Zachary Taylor, "Inaugural Address," 05 March 1849.
  [Zachary Taylor: "Inaugural Address," March 5, 1849. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25815.]
• Astor Place Riot, 10 May 1849.
• Thomas Prentice Kettell (1811-1878), "Railroad to the Pacific," Democratic Review, September 1849.
  [Archive.org.]
• Zachary Taylor, "Annual Message," 04 December 1849.
  [Zachary Taylor: "Annual Message," December 4, 1849. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29490.]
• R. W. Emerson. Nature; Addresses, and Lectures. Boston and Cambridge: J. Munroe and Company, 1849.
  [Archive.org.]
  Contains "The American Scholar" and the "Divinity School Address."
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891). Poems. In Two Volumes. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1849.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Charles Lyell (1797–1875). A Second Visit to the United States of North America. London: John Murray, 1849. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849.
  [Archive.org, London, 1850, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, London, 1850, vol 2 of 2.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Mardi: and a Voyage Thither. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Pittsburg, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, Pittsburg, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, California, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, California, vol 2 of 2.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Redburn: His First Voyage. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Francis Parkman (1823-1893). The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Francis Parkman. The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac. Edited by William R. Taylor. New York: Library of America, 1991.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). "Resistance to Civil Government" in Aesthetic Papers edited by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Boston, 1849.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Asa Whitney (1797-1874). A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific. New York: George W. Wood, 1849.
  [Archive.org.]

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~~~~~ 1850s ~~~~~

• 1850s.
• Presidency of Millard Fillmore, July 1850 - March 1853.
• Compromise of 1850.
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
  Personal liberty laws.
• Richard Henry Dana Sr. (1787–1879). Poems and Prose Writings. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850.
  [Google Books, vol 1 of 2; Google Books, vol 2 of 2;
  Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Representative Men: Seven Lectures. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Princeton Theological Seminary.]
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1850, Duke University; Archive.org, 1850, with Second Edition preface, California; Archive.org, 1853, Brigham Young University.]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). Poems. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War. 1850.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1892.]
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). The Literati. New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850.
  [Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Boston Public Library.]
~~~~~ 1851 ~~~~~
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Oxford University; Archive.org, Oxford University, another copy.]
• Johnson J. Hooper (1815–1862). The Widow Rugby's Husband, A Night at the Ugly Man's, and Other Tales of Alabama. Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1851.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868). Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851.
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1852 ~~~~~
• William M. Gouge (1796-1863). The Fiscal History of Texas. Embracing an Account of Its Revenues, Debts, and Currency, from the Commencement of the Revolution in 1834 to 1851-52. With Remarks on American Debts. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852.
  [Archive.org.]
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, California.]
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864). The Blithedale Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Brigham Young University.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903). Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England. New York: George P. Putnam, 1852.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
  Also in: Harriet Beecher Stowe. Three Novels. Edited by Kathryn Sklar. New York: Library of America, 1982.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• The Pro-Slavery Argument: As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States. Charleston: Walker, Richards & Co., 1852. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853.
  [Archive.org, Charleston; Archive.org, Philadelphia.]
  An anthology of previously published books and essays by: William Harper; James Henry Hammond; William Gilmore Simms; and Thomas Roderick Dew.
• United States presidential election, 1852, Pierce versus Scott.
~~~~~ 1853 ~~~~~
• Presidency of Franklin Pierce, March 1853 - March 1857.
• Crimean War, October 1853 to February 1856.
• Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882). Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines. Paris: 1853-1855. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races, with Particular Reference to their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. London: William Heinemann, 1915.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1856; Archive.org, 1915.]
• Solomon Northup (1807 or 1808 – 1863?). Twelve Years a Slave. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1853. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1853.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Archive.org, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets; Archive.org, University of Toronto.]
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853. London: Thomas Bosworth, 1853.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, another copy; Archive.org, Wellesley College; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Boston Public Library; Archive.org, University of Pittsburgh, London edition, in single column format.]
• Autographs for Freedom. Edited by Julia Griffiths for the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. London: Sampson Low, Son & Co. and John Cassell, 1853. Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co.; Rochester: Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., 1854.
  [Archive.org, 1853, Boston; Archive.org, 1853, London; Archive.org, 1854.]
  This book includes the short story "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass (Wikipedia).
~~~~~ 1854 ~~~~~
• O'Reilly v. Morse, The Telegraph Patent Case, 1854.
• Kansas–Nebraska Act, 1854.
• Ostend Manifesto, 1854.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Peoria speech. 16 October 1854.
  [Wikipedia.]
  In: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989. "Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peoria, Illinois," pages 307-348.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861.
• Knights of the Golden Circle, founded 1854.
• Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858). Thirty Years' View; or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854, 1856.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Fanny Fern (1811–1872). Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time. New York: Mason Brothers, 1854.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1855.]
• George Fitzhugh (1806–1881). Sociology for the South: or, The Failure of Free Society. Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1854.
  [Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903). History of Rome. 1854–1856.
  [Wikipedia.]
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1855 ~~~~~
• David Brewster (1781–1868). Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co., 1855. Second Edition, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1860.
  [Archive.org, 1855, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, 1855, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, 1860, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, 1860, vol 2 of 2.]
• David Christy. Cotton is King: or the Culture of Cotton, and Its Relation to Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce; to the Free Colored People; and to Those Who Hold that Slavery is in Itself Sinful. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, & Co., 1855. Second edition, New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856.
  [Archive.org, 1855; Archive.org, 1856.]
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). My Bondage and My Freedom. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets; Archive.org, University of Pittsburgh; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, University of Toronto; Archive.org, Brigham Young University.]
  Also in: Frederick Douglass. Autobiographies. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 1994.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873). The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855.
  [Archive.org.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1855. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1855.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, New York edition, Oxford; Archive.org, New York edition, Harvard; Archive.org, London edition, California.]
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1855. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. Washington, D.C.: J.S. Redfield, 1871; 1872. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1882.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1860; Archive.org, 1871; Archive.org, 1872; Archive.org, 1882.]
~~~~~ 1856 ~~~~~
• Charles Sumner (1811-1874). The Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime. The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, in the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th of May, 1856. Boston: J.P. Jewett & Company, 1856. Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1856.
  [Archive.org, Boston; Archive.org, Washington, D.C..]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Caning of Charles Sumner, 22 May 1856.
• United States presidential election, 1856, Buchanan versus Frémont versus Fillmore.
• R. W. Emerson (1803–1882). Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856.
  [Archive.org.]
  Contains "The American Scholar" and the "Divinity School Address."
• R. W. Emerson (1803–1882). English Traits. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856.
  [Archive.org.]
• Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809-1877). An Essay on Liberty and Slavery. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856.
  [Archive.org.]
  "... The institution of slavery, as it exists among us at the South, is founded in political justice, is in accordance with the will of God and the designs of his providence, and is conducive to the highest, purest, best interests of mankind." (page 8)
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). The Piazza Tales. New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903). A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy. New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1856.
  [Archive.org, New York, Wellesley College; Archive.org, New York, Library of Congress; Archive.org, London, University of North Carolina.]
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2.]
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859). L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution. Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1856. The Old Regime and the Revolution. Translated by John Bonner. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Paris; Archive.org, New York.]
• Bessemer process, patented by Henry Bessemer (1813–1898) in 1856, which is superseded by the development of the Open hearth furnace in the 1860s.
  (This means that in the future steel will be made at much lower cost in much larger batches, which means that steel will replace softer iron in applications like rails for railroads, ship hulls, boilers for steam engines, and many other innovations previously unimagined due to the previous high cost of steel. Steel boilers means steam engines can be designed to operate more reliably at higher pressures and temperatures. These innovations will lower the cost and increase the speed and reliability of transportation by rail, river, and ocean during the later decades of the Nineteenth Century, to mention just one consequence.)
  See History of the steel industry (1850–1970).
~~~~~ 1857 ~~~~~
• Presidency of James Buchanan, March 1857 - March 1861.
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 1857.
• Panic of 1857.
• Calvin Colton. The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay (in six volumes). New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1857.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 6, Life and Times; Archive.org, vol 2 of 6, Life and Times; Archive.org, vol 3 of 6, Life and Times; Archive.org, vol 4 of 6, Private Correspondence; Archive.org, vol 5 of 6, Speeches; Archive.org, vol 6 of 6, Speeches.]
• George Fitzhugh (1806–1881). Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters. Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1857.
  [Archive.org, James Birney Collection of Anti-Slavery Pamphlets; Archive.org, Wellesley College Library; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
  Reprinted: George Fitzhugh. Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters. Edited by C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999). Harvard University Press, 1960; 2009. (Contains an introductory essay by C. Vann Woodward.)
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Hinton Rowan Helper (1829–1909). The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. New York: Burdick Brothers, 1857.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, New York Public Library.]
• J. Smith Homans, Junior. An Historical and Statistical Account of the Foreign Commerce of the United States. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1857.
  [Archive.org.]
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1857.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903). A Journey through Texas; or, A Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier; with a Statistical Appendix. New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1857.
  [Archive.org.]
  Reprinted: Frederick Law Olmsted. A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier. Introduction by Witold Rybczynski. Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
~~~~~ 1858 ~~~~~
• James Henry Hammond (1807–1864). Speech of Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858. Washington: Lemuel Towers, 1858.
  [Archive.org.]
  This is better known today as the "King Cotton" or "Mud-sill Speech."
  Also in: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina. New York: J. F. Trow & Co., 1866. Pages 301-322.
  [Archive.org.]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). "House Divided" speech. 16 June 1858.
  In: Proceedings of the Republican State Convention held at Spingfield [sic], Illinois, June 16, 1858. Springfield: Bailhache & Baker, 1858. Pages 9-12.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861). Lincoln–Douglas debates, August - October, 1858.
  Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas: in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.
  [Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, New York Public Library; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, another copy.]
  Also in: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Yale; Archive.org, U.S. National Library of Medicine; Archive.org, California.]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. London : W. Kent & Co., 1858.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1858, Brigham Young University; Archive.org, 1858, California; Archive.org, 1858, London; Archive.org, 1859.]
• Henry Sherman (1808-1879). Slavery in the United States of America: Its National Recognition and Relations, from the Establishment of the Confederacy, to the Present Time. Hartford: J. O. Hurlburt, 1858. Second edition, Hartford: Hurlburt & Pond, 1860.
  [Archive.org, 1858; Archive.org, 1860.]
~~~~~ 1859 ~~~~~
• "On August 28, 1859, George Bissell (1821–1884) and Edwin L. Drake (1819–1880) made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania." (History of the petroleum industry in the United States, Wikipedia.)
• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, 16–18 October 1859.
• John Brown (1800–1859). Testimonies of Capt. John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, with His Address to the Court. New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
  [Archive.org.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Third Edition, London: John Murray, 1861.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1859, Boston Public Library; Archive.org, 1859, Harvard; Archive.org, 1859, Smithsonian; Archive.org, 1860; Archive.org, 1861.]
• Robert M. De Witt. The Life, Trial, and Conviction of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie," with a full account of the attempted insurrection at Harper's Ferry. New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1859.
  [Archive.org.]
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873). On Liberty. London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Third Edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, London, 1864.]
• Florence Nightingale (1820–1910). Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not. London: Harrison, 1859. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Boston: William Carter, 1860. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged, London: Harrison, 1861.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, London 1859, California; Archive.org, London 1859, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Copy 1; Archive.org, London 1859, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Copy 2; Archive.org, New York 1860, California; Archive.org, New York 1860, Wellcome Library; Archive.org, Boston 1860, California; Archive.org, London 1861, Brigham Young University.]
• Edward A. Pollard (1832–1872). The Southern Spy: or, Curiosities of Negro Slavery in the South. Washington: Henry Polkinhorn, Printer, 1859.
  Reprinted as: Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South. New-York: Pudney & Russell, 1859.
  [Archive.org, Southern Spy; Archive.org, Black Diamonds.]
• Samuel Smiles (1812–1904). Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct. London: John Murray, 1859. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Boston, 1860; Archive.org, New York, 1860.]
• Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900). Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, 1859.]
  Reprinted: Harriet E. Wilson. Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Introduction and Notes by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald Pitts. Penguin Books, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Reprinted: Harriet E. Wilson. Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Edited with an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. Ellis. New York: Vintage Books (Penguin Random House), 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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~~~~~ 1860s ~~~~~

• United States presidential election, 1860, Lincoln versus Douglas versus Breckinridge versus Bell.
• Thomas Drew. The John Brown Invasion: An Authentic History of the Harper's Ferry Tragedy. Boston: James Campbell, 1860.
  [Archive.org.]
• E. N. Elliott, editor. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments. Augusta, Ga.: Pritchard, Abbott & Loomis, 1860.
  [Archive.org.]
  An anthology of mostly previously published books and essays by: David Christy; Albert Taylor Bledsoe; Thornton Stringfellow; William Harper; James Henry Hammond; Samuel A. Cartwright; E. N. Elliott; Charles Hodge. Also: The Dred Scott Decision.
• R. W. Emerson (1803–1882). The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1860.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Boston, 1860, California; Archive.org, Boston, 1860, California; Archive.org, Boston, 1860, California; Archive.org, London, 1860, Toronto; Archive.org, London, 1860, Second Edition, Library of Congress.]
• Thomas Prentice Kettell (1811-1878). Southern Wealth and Northern Profits, as Exhibited in Statistical Facts and Official Figures: Showing the Necessity of Union to the Future Prosperity and Welfare of the Republic. New York: George W. & John A. Wood, 1860.
  [Archive.org.]
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903). A Journey in the Back Country. New York: Mason Brothers, 1860.
  [Archive.org.]
• James Redpath (1833-1891). The Public Life of Capt. John Brown. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
  [Archive.org.]
~~~~~ 1861 ~~~~~
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), "Paul Revere's Ride," The Atlantic Monthly, January 1861.
  (Included in Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863.)
  [Wikipedia.]
• Confederate States of America, established in February 1861.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). "First Inaugural Address," 04 March 1861.
  [Abraham Lincoln: "Inaugural Address," March 4, 1861. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25818.]
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865. Don E. Fehrenbacher, editor. New York: Library of America, 1989.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883). "African Slavery: The Corner-Stone of the Southern Confederacy," Delivered at the Atheneum, Savannah, 22 March 1861. In Three Unlike Essays. New York: E. D. Barker, 1862. Pages 65-78.
  [Archive.org; Archive.org, with adverts.]
  Also in: American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War. Ted Widmer, editor. New York: Library of America, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Battle of Fort Sumter, 12–13 April 1861.
• American Civil War.
• Felix Gregory De Fontaine (1832-1896). History of American Abolitionism; Its Four Great Epochs. . . . Together with a History of the Southern Confederacy. (Originally published in the New York Herald.). New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1861.
  [Archive.org.]
• Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited by Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880). Boston, 1861.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org.]
  Also in: Slave Narratives. Edited by William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Library of America, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868). Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1861.
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903). Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1861. American edition: The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. New York: Mason Brothers, 1861.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, New York edition, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, New York edition, vol 2 of 2.]
  Reprinted: Frederick Law Olmsted. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861. Arthur M. Schlesinger, editor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1953. New York: De Capo Press, Inc. (Perseus Books Group / Hachette), 1996.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Samuel Smiles (1812–1904). Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works. London: John Murray, 1861.
  [Archive.org, Toronto set: vol 1 of 4 (Embanking and Draining; Myddelton; Roads; Bridges, Harbours and Ferries; Brindley); vol 2 of 4 (Smeaton; Rennie; Telford); vol 3 of 4 (George and Robert Stevenson); vol 4 of 4 (Boulton and Watt).
  Archive.org, California set: vol 1 of 4; vol 2 of 4; vol 3 of 4; vol 4 of 4.
  Archive.org, 1904 set: vol 1 of 5 (Early Engineering); vol 2 of 5 (Harbours-Lighthouses-Bridges); vol 3 of 5 (Roads); vol 4 of 5 (The Steam-Engine); vol 5 of 5 (The Locomotive).]
~~~~~ 1863 ~~~~~
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Tales of a Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Toronto.]
~~~~~ 1865 ~~~~~
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Drum-Taps. New York, 1865.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Brigham Young University;
  Archive.org, California.]
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Sequel to Drum-Taps. Washington, 1865.
  [Wikipedia.]
~~~~~ 1866 ~~~~~
• Herman Melville (1819–1891). Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Brigham Young University; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, California.]
~~~~~ 1868 ~~~~~
• Horace Greeley (1811–1872). Recollections of a Busy Life. New York: J. B. Ford & Company, 1868.
  [Archive.org, California; Archive.org, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Archive.org, Illinois; Archive.org, Library of Congress.]
• Frances Flora Bond Palmer (1812–1876) and Currier and Ives. Across the Continent, 1868.
  Copies at: National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art;
  Library of Congress.

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~~~~~ 1870s ~~~~~

• Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C., 1871.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Middlebury College; Archive.org, California.]
• Thomas Prentice Kettell and others. One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States. Hartford, Conn.: L. Stebbins, 1871.
  [Archive.org.]
• John Gast (1842–1896). American Progress, 1872.
  Martha A. Sandweiss, "John Gast, American Progress, 1872," Picturing United States History, City University of New York.
• William Still (1821–1902). The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c.. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872.
  [Wikipedia; Archive.org, Boston Public Library; Archive.org, Wellesley; Archive.org, Library of Congress; Archive.org, Illinois; Archive.org, Gettysburg College.]
• Henry Wilson (1812–1875). History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. In Three Volumes. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872; 1874; 1877. (Later editions published by Houghton, Mifflin Company.)
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]
• William Ellery Channing (1818-1901). Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873.
  [Archive.org.]
• Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874-1877.
  [Archive.org: vol 1 of 12; vol 2 of 12; vol 3 of 12; vol 4 of 12; vol 5 of 12; vol 6 of 12; vol 7 of 12; vol 8 of 12; vol 9 of 12; vol 10 of 12; vol 11 of 12; vol 12 of 12.]
• The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society.
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Two Rivulets: Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India. Camden, New Jersey, 1876.
  [Archive.org.]
• [Albert Gallatin (1761–1849).] The Writings of Albert Gallatin. Edited by Henry Adams (1838–1918). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 3; Archive.org, vol 2 of 3; Archive.org, vol 3 of 3.]

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~~~~~ 1880s ~~~~~

• Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Specimen Days & Collect. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1882.
  [Archive.org.]
• Frank William Taussig (1859–1940). Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States: A Study in Economic History. Cambridge, Mass.: Moses King, 1883. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884; 1886.
  [Archive.org, 1883; Archive.org, 1884; Archive.org, 1886.]
• Frank William Taussig (1859–1940). The History of the Present Tariff, 1860-1883. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1885.
  [Archive.org, 1885.]
• John Charles Frémont (1813–1890). Memoirs of My Life. Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, 1886.
  [Archive.org, 1886; Archive.org, 1887.]
• J. L. Ringwalt. Development of Transportation Systems in the United States. Philadelphia, 1888. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966.
  [Archive.org, Toronto; Archive.org, Boston Public Library, 1966 reprint.]
• Frank William Taussig (1859–1940). The Tariff History of the United States: A Series of Essays. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893.
  [Archive.org, 1888; Archive.org, 1893.]
  F. W. Taussig. The Tariff History of the United States. Fifth edition, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. Sixth edition, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. Eighth edition, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931.
  [Archive.org, 5e, 1910; Archive.org, 6e, 1914; Archive.org, 8e, 1931.]

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~~~~~ 1890s ~~~~~

• Frank William Taussig (1859–1940), editor. State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1893.
  (Introduction by F. W. Taussig. Works by Alexander Hamilton, Albert Gallatin, Robert J. Walker, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster.)
  [Archive.org.]
• William Graham Sumner (1840–1910). A History of Banking in the United States. Volume 1 of 4 in A History of Banking in All the Leading Nations. New York: The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, 1896.
  [Archive.org.]

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~~~~~ 1900s ~~~~~

• Edward Stanwood. American Tariff Controversies in the Nineteenth Century. In Two Volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1903.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, Stanford; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2,Stanford; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, Cornell; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, Cornell; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, Toronto; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, Toronto; Archive.org, vol 1 of 2, Michigan; Archive.org, vol 2 of 2, Michigan.]
• Katharine Coman (1857–1915). The Industrial History of the United States. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. New and Revised Edition, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910.
  [Archive.org, 1905; Archive.org, 1918.]
• Annie Heloise Abel (1873–1947). The History of Events Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi. Washington: American Historical Association, 1908.
  [Archive.org.]

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~~~~~ 1910s ~~~~~

• Milo Milton Quaife, editor. The Diary of James K. Polk: During his Presidency, 1845 to 1849. In Four Volumes. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910.
  [Archive.org, vol 1 of 4; Archive.org, vol 2 of 4; Archive.org, vol 3 of 4; Archive.org, vol 4 of 4.]
• Katharine Coman (1857–1915). Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi. Volume 1. Explorers and Colonizers. Volume 2. American Settlers. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. Two Volumes in One, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925.
  [Archive.org, 1912, vol 1 of 2; Archive.org, 1912, vol 2 of 2; Archive.org, 1925.]
• Victor S. Clark. History of Manufactures in the United States 1607-1860. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916.
  [Google Books; Archive.org.]
• Ernest Ludlow Bogart and Charles Manfred Thompson, editors. Readings in the Economic History of the United States. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916.
  [Archive.org.]

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