Essay
The New Nation, 1783–1815
The leaders of the American Revolution made three great gambles. First, they sought independence...
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Essay
New Orleans and the History of Jazz
New Orleans is a city built in a location that was by any measure a mistake.North American settlers needed a way to import and export goods via the Mississippi River, so a city was...
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Bridging the Caribbean: Puerto Rican Roots in Nineteenth-Century America
In recent years, the media has tended to portray US Latinos of Hispanic Caribbean ancestry as new immigrants, but this characterization...
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The Filibuster King: The Strange Career of William Walker, the Most Dangerous International Criminal of the Nineteenth Century
On November 8, 1855, on the central plaza of the Nicaraguan city of Granada, a line of riflemen shot General Ponciano Corral, the senior general of the Conservative government....
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Battle of New Orleans
Unaware of a peace treaty signed two weeks earlier, General Andrew Jackson stopped a British attack at the Battle of New Orleans. British forces suffered 2,036 casualties; US forces suffered eight men killed and thirteen wounded.
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Pickney’s Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty was signed. The treaty between the United States and Spain defined land boundaries and allowed the US to transport goods on the Mississippi and through the port of New Orleans.
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Trip to New Orleans
In April 1828, Lincoln took a flatboat of farm produce to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was reported to have observed a slave auction.