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Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy

Abraham Lincoln was, for most of his political career, a highly partisan Whig. As long as the Whig Party existed, he never supported the candidate of another party. Until the late 1850s, his chief political...

Abraham Lincoln, by Mathew Brady, February 27, 1860. (GLC05136.01)

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Lincoln’s Religion

“Lincoln often, if not wholly, was an atheist,” insisted one of Lincoln’s political associates, James H. Matheny. The young Lincoln had “called...

Rachel Jackson, ca. 1824, attributed to Mary C. Strobel. (GLC02793.019.02)

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Female Trouble: Andrew Jackson versus the Ladies of Washington

Andrew Jackson was mad. It was February 1829, a wintry day in Washington,...

Patent signed by James Buchanan, May 28, 1846. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Technology of the 1800s

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Mace in the House Chamber (Office of the Clerk, US House of Representatives)

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The Culture of Congress in the Age of Jackson

During an 1841 debate in the House of Representatives...

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Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States

The industrial revolution that transformed western Europe and the United States during the course of the nineteenth century had its origins in the introduction of power-driven...

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When Myth and Meaning Overshadow History: Remembering the Alamo

Rare are the students who enter US classrooms without some preconceived notions regarding the Alamo. Thanks to...

Indian peace medal, 1829. (GLC02772.02)

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The Indian Removal Act

In the early nineteenth century, as...

William Walker, ca. 1855–1860, by Mathew Brady (LC-USZC4-10802)

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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....

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1880s. (GLC07926.02)

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Allies for Emancipation? Black Abolitionists and Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was not an original advocate of abolition. In fact we know that his journey to what he called “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century” was a relatively slow, though continuous...