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• Archiving Early America
• The Hermitage: The Home of Andrew Jackson
• Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto (1832)
• Henry Clay, Speech on the Bank Veto (1832)
• Excerpts from the Diaries of John Quincy Adams regarding the Amistad Affair 1840-41
• Letter from Kale (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams 1841
• Letter from Kinna (of the Amistad) to John Quincy Adams 1841
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848
• Amistad Trials
• Dred Scott v Sandford
• Gammel's The Laws of Texas 1822-1897
• The Alvan Stewart Papers
• The Alvan Stewart Papers contains approximately 200 handwritten pages of a diary by New York lawyer and abolitionist Alvan Stewart (1790-1849). The diary chronicles Stewart’s travels from May to September 1831, including a sea voyage from New York to Liverpool, his travels through England and France, and the return voyage. The diary offers a unique and previously undiscovered glimpse of Stewart’s early life, his blossoming religious and abolitionist feelings, and his growing concerns with the fate of mankind. A keen observer of the human condition, Stewart’s observations and experiences aboard ship and as a traveler throughout England and France provide an entertaining and fascinating first-hand account of life in Europe, as viewed by an educated American gentleman.
• The Diaries of John Quincy Adams
• This website presents images of the 51 volumes of John Quincy Adams' diary in the Adams Family Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Adams began keeping his diary, more than 14,000 pages, in 1779 at the age of twelve and continued until shortly before his death in 1848. The diary can be searched by date or by using the detailed timeline. Because there is no transcription of the diary, it is not possible to search the text by keyword. For an overview to this website including an introduction to locating and reading the handwritten pages, please refer to the Getting Started page.
• U.S. Government Information on the Presidents

• William Barret Travis: Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo, 1836

• Ball, John, Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
• The Donner Party
• Parkman, Francis, The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life, 1849
• The Mormon Pioneer Trail
• Wyeth, Nathaniel J.: The Journals of Expeditions to the Oregon Country 1832 - 1834 and Selected Letters.
• Ogden, Peter Skene, Accounts of an 1825 Expedition into Utah
• Mountain Men and the Fur Trade

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, The Transcendentalist (1842)
• Catlin, George, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians, 1844.

• The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831

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