Aaron Burr's Trial America's Wars--The War of 1812 American Women of the Early 19c Ashland:  The Henry Clay Estate "The Battle of Lake Champlain" - Stephen Ray (essay) A Biography of America:  A New System of Government (1776-1826) - Annenberb/CPB Birch's View of Philadelphia in 1800 Casebook:  The War of 1812 Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism:  1790-1829 Clothing of the 1830s Daniel Webster:  Class of 1801 A Day in the Life of Thomas Jefferson Documents from the War of 1812 The Dolley Madison Project Dolley Payne (Todd) Madison The Duel (The American Experience PBS series) "Duel at Dawn, 1804" - Hamilton vs. Burr The Early Postal System Elizabeth Kortright Monroe Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine The History of Black Military Service:  From the Colonial Era through the Antebellum Period James Madison (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency James Madison (2) - POTUS site James Madison- His Legacy James Monroe (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency James Monroe (2) - POTUS site Jefferson on Slavery Jefferson's Blood (PBS-Frontline) "John Bull and Uncle Sam:  Four Centuries of British-American Relations" (From Enemy to Ally) John Quincy Adams (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency John Quincy Adams (2) - POTUS site Lewis & Clark:  The Journey of the Core of Discovery (PBS) Lewis and Clark (PBS series) Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail The Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition - Documents Lewis and Clark in the Rockies Lewis & Clark - Mapping the West Letters of Thomas Jefferson Map-->"Election Results for 1800" Map-->"Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries:  1783-1826" Map-->"U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map" Map-->"U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline" Map-->"U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map" Map-->"The War of 1812" (1) Martha Ballard's Diary:  1785-1812 Martha Wayles (Skelton) Jefferson Methods of Electing Electors, outlining how electors were chosen in the states from 1804-1832 Mystic Seaport & Maritime Museum - Official Site Monticello National Road - Route 40 The Nineteenth Century in Print- Periodicals Paintings of the War of 1812 The Papers of President James Madison (Avalon Project) The Papers of President James Monroe (Avalon Project) The Papers of President Thomas Jefferson (Avalon Project) Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC) The Republican Era 1801-1825 (outline notes) The Star Spangled Banner -- The Flag that Had Inspired the National Anthem Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson from the Modern English Collection Thomas Jefferson (LOC) Thomas Jefferson on Politics and Government Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Thomas Jefferson (2) - POTUS site The War of 1812 (History Central) The War of 1812 Website Westward by Sea- A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820-1890 (LOC) Women in America:  1820-1842 "Young America" Art Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

                         
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1785-1812:  Diary of Martha Ballard 1800:  Gabriel's Conspiracy - assorted documents 1800:  "An Act to Prohibit the Carrying on the Slave Trade from the United States to any Foreign Place or Country." (5/10) 1801:  State v. Boon 1801:  First Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1801:  First Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson 1801:  Margaret Bayard Smith Meets Thomas Jefferson 1801-4:  “A Religious Flame That Spread All Over Kentucky" - Peter Cartwright Brings Evangelical Christianity to the West 1802:  Jefferson's "Wall of Separation" Letter (1/1) 1802:  Second Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1803:  An Act to Prevent the Importation of Certain Persons into Certain States, Where, by the Laws Thereof, Their Admission is Prohibited (2/28) 1803:  The Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase - Thomas Jefferson to John C. Breckinridge 1803:  "The following resolution passed the House of representatives on Wednesday last, and the senate yesterday. [Regarding the free navigation of the Mississippi River]" - broadside 1803:  Letter from President Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis 1803:  Louisiana Purchase and Associated Documents 1803:  Marbury v. Madison 1803:  Speech Opposing the Louisiana Purchase - Senator Samuel White 1803:  Third Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1804:  12th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution 1804?:  "An Act to Abolish Slavery" - pamphlet 1804:  Black Laws of Ohio 1804:  Fourth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1804:  Letter on Presidential Appointments (midway down the page)- Abigail Adams 1804:  President Jefferson to Governor Claiborne 1804:  "The Republican. No. II" - Fisher Ames 1805:  Excerpt from the Journal of Lewis and Clark 1805:  Fifth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1805:  "Indian speech, delivered before a gentleman missionary, from Massachusetts, by a chief, commonly called by the white people Red Jacket. His Indian name is Sagu-ua-what-hath, which being interpreted, is Keeper-awake" - broadside 1805:  Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific Ocean 1805:  New England Primer 1805:  Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion 1805:  Second Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson 1805:  Treaty of Vincennes (1/21) 1806:  Account of a Connecticut Camp Meeting 1806:  Sixth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1807:  An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves 1807:  A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson: containing an account of her sufferings, during four years, with the Indians and French 1807:  New England Primer 1807:  "Remarks on the slave-trade ... Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, No. 362 Pearl-Street " - broadside   image 1807:  Seventh Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1807:  The Stranger in America: Containing Observations Made During a Long Residence in that Country - Charles William Janson 1807:  Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial for treason (6/13) 1808:  "The constitution. Fellow-citizens of New-Hampshire. At an awful crisis, at a momentous period of our political existence we address you ... The Anti-Madison and anti-embargo list for electors ... [Signed] A Republican" - broadside 1808:  "Dignified patriotism. Extract from the Hon. Mr. Hillhouse's speech, in the Senate of the U. States, against the passing of the new embargo law" - broadside 1808:  Eighth Annual Message to Congress of Thomas Jefferson 1808:  A Thanksgiving Sermon by Absalom Jones 1808:  Washington's Black Code 1809:  First Inaugural Address - James Madison 1810:  "American Shakers" broadside (early 1800s) 1810:  Census Data for the Year 1810 1810:  Fletcher v. Peck  1810:  Portrait of Absalom Jones - painting by Raphaelle Peale 1811:  The Debate over War in Congress 1811:  Journal of a Voyage Up the Mississippi River - Henry Marie Brackenridge 1811:  "Let every Federalist do his duty, and Massachusetts will yet be saved!!! Federal republicans!",  Boston (April) - broadside 1812:  The American Debate Over the War of 1812 1812:  Documents for Debate on Going to War in 1812 1812:  Economic Nationalism and Sectionalism - "Report of Commissioners Appointed to Survey a Route for a Canal and Road Connection Between the James and Ohio Rivers"   Chief Justice John Marshall, chairman, 26 December 1812 1812:  "Gerrymander" - an anonymous political cartoon 1812:  James Madison Speech to a Joint Session of Congress 1812:  "Prompt patriotism. At a convention of republican delegates, consisting of one hundred and forty-two members, from fifty one towns/in the late County of Hampshire, comprising the counties, of Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, convened at the Court-House in Northampton, on the 20th day of July inst at 11 o'clock [Resolves on war] July 21, 1812" - broadside 1812:  Songs and Lyrics of the War of 1812 1812:  U. S. v. Hudson and Goodwin 1812:  The War of 1812 - assorted documents of the war 1812-13:  Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri - John C. Luttig 1813:  "Naval Battle Between the United States and the Macedonian on October 30, 1812- a painting by Thomas Birch 1813:  Second Inaugural Address - James Madison 1814:  Amendments to the Constitution as Proposed by the Hartford Convention 1814:  Star Spangled Banner Lyrics 1814:  The Treaty of Ghent 1815:  A Convention to Regulate the Commerce - Britain & the U. S. 1815:  Excerpt from the Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington 1815:  "Glorious news from New Orleans! Splendid victory over the British forces Essex, Register Office. 2/9" - broadside 1815:  “I found him to be a very intelligent and feeling man” - Enslaved James Riley Encounters an Arab Trader 1815:  Jackson's letter describing the Battle of New Orleans 1815:  John Adams Letter to George Washington Adams and John Adams 2d (5/3) - preserve all that you write 1815:  "Liberty and Peace" - song lyrics 1815:  Memoirs of Susan Mansfield Huntington of MA - excerpts 1815:  Whatever You Write Preserve - John Adams to George Washington Adams and John Adams 2nd (5/3) 1816:  The Barbary Treaties 1816:  Diary of Stirling Murray, a fragment from 1816 dealing with the slave trade in Havana 1816:  Iroquois Creation Myth 1816:  John Bigelow, "Inaugural Address" 1816:  Letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer regarding the Dartmouth College case (7/21) 1816:  Slave bill of sale from Jane E Williams 1817:  Excerpt from the Cotton Book of G. W. Lovelace 1817:  First Inaugural Address - James Monroe 1817:  Opening of the New York to Liverpool Packet Line 1817:  Rush-Bagot Agreement 1818:  "About the Banks" - Hezekiah Niles in Niles' Weekly Register (11/7) 1818:  Circular letter regarding the establishing of Sunday schools in Boston 1818:  Curriculum for the University of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson 1818:  John Taylor, Arator: Being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Political - The Future of the Union 1818:  Observations on the Real Rights of Women - Hannah Crocker - excerpts 1818:  The Sally Hemmings Accusation Against Thomas Jefferson - article by James T. Callender 1818:  “Suffer for About the First Six Months After Leaving Home”- John Doyle Writes Home to Ireland 1819:  Adams-Onis Treaty 1819:  American State Papers, Military Affairs, "Description of the United States Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts" 1819:  Dartmouth College v. Woodward 1819:  Extract from the Albany Daily Advertiser 1819:  McCulloch v. Maryland 1819:  Tallmadge's Speech to Congress 1820:  Census Data for the Year 1820 1820:  Charles Pickney's Speech to Congress 1820:  Compromise of 1820 - Tallmadge Amendment 1820:  Compromise of 1820 - Taylor's Amendment 1820:  Compromise of 1820 - Thomas's Amendment 1820:  Cotton Boom in Alabama and Mississippi 1820   James Madison - in his own word - excerpts from 1820s to his death 1820:  John Quincy Adams & John C. Calhoun Discuss the Compromise of 1820 1820:  The Missouri Compromise - James G. Blaine 1820:  Missouri Enabling Act 1820:  Plymouth Oration - Daniel Webster (12/22) 1820:  Record of the US Senate Debate on the Admission of Missouri 1820:  "Sectionalism and the Missouri Compromise" - Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, 22 April 1820 - Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1854), volume 7 1820:  Slavery and the Constitution - John Quincy Adams 1820:  Taylor Amendment (1/26) 1820:  Thomas Amendment (2/17) 1821:  Cohens v. Virginia 1821:  Second Inaugural Address - James Monroe 1821:  Thomas Jefferson's Biography (excerpts) - views on slavery 1821:  Warning Against the Search for "Monsters to Destroy" - John Quincy Adams 1823:  British Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in America 1823:  Captured By Indians- Mary Jemison Becomes an Indian 1823:  John Quincy Adams's Account of the Cabinet Meeting of 11/7 1823:  Joshua & Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson 1823:  Monroe Doctrine 1823:  Monroe Letter to Jefferson Seeking Foreign Policy Advice 1823:  Thomas Jefferson on the Monroe Doctrine (10/24) 1824:  Gibbons v. Ogden 1824:  “My Husband Was Seized With the Mania” - Emigration from New York to Michigan 1824:  Notices & Advertisements from the New York Evening Post 1826:  Adams and Jefferson - funeral oration by Daniel Webster (8/2) 1825:  The Bunker Hill Monument - Daniel Webster (6/17) 1825:  First Inaugural Address of John Quincy Adam 1825:  "Good Jackson Times. Farmers are doing well- of course every other man must do well" - broadside 1825:  Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Henry Lee 1826:  Death of Adams & Jefferson on the Same Day - Thomas H. Benton 1826:  Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Roger C. Weightman 1827:  The First African American Newspaper Appears - from Freedom's Journal, (3/16) 1828:  The Election of 1828 as Seen from New York City  1828:  SC's Protest Against the Tariff of 1828 - John C. Calhoun's speech 1959:  "The Battle of New Orleans" - lyrics by Johnny Driftwood (with audio file)