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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The frontier in American history	Frederick Jackson Turner	In this series of essays first published in 1920, the noted historian presents his ideas on the role of the frontier in shaping the American experience. The Frontier in American History examines the …	OL1417901W
The Louisiana Purchase	Michael Burgan	Looks at the political and economic history of the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains which, when purchased in 1803, doubled the size of the United States and led the way to…	OL14579W
Indian Wars	Bill Yenne	The Indian wars remain the most misunderstood campaign ever waged by the U.S. Army. From the first sustained skirmishes west of the Mississippi River in the 1850s to the sweeping clashes of hundreds …	OL14912387W
Blood and Thunder	Hampton Sides	Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chel…	OL15134514W
Unfamiliar Fishes	Sarah Vowell	From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, …	OL15690936W
Patterns of empire	Julian Go	"Patterns of empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Pattern…	OL15946938W
The President and the assassin	Scott Miller	The era leading up to the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 was defined by enormous expansion in American industry and muscle-flexing abroad as well as the potent rise of labor unre…	OL15976081W
Lions of the West	Robert Morgan	From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illumina…	OL16099178W
Osceola and the great Seminole war	Thom Hatch	"When he died in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous Native American in the world. Born a Creek, Osceola was driven from his home to Florida by General Andrew Jackson where he joined t…	OL16607048W
The failure of popular sovereignty	Christopher Childers	xii, 334 p. : 24 cm	OL16681624W
Jacksonland	Steve Inskeep	Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States faced a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two men, former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of dem…	OL19664518W
Manifest destiny and the new nation (1803-1859)	Salem Press	Contains primary source documents.	OL19666390W
A nation without borders	Steven Hahn	"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of t…	OL20040609W
Westward expansion	Ray Allen Billington	Discusses the colonial frontier, the trans-Appalachian frontier, the trans-Mississippi frontier. The geographic continuity is stressed.	OL3577032W
A country of vast designs	Robert W. Merry	In a one-term presidency, Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny -- extending its territory across the continent, from sea to sea, by threatening England and manufacturing a controver…	OL3750765W
The American way	Carville Earle	"The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy - the relocation of firms toward the Sunbelt and abroad; the decline of manufacturing in the Rust Belt; the rise of footloose producer services; …	OL4093574W
The Louisiana Purchase	Thomas J. Fleming	From The Louisiana Purchase Like many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity. . . . Thomas Jefferson would…	OL464955W
John Charles Frémont	Charles W. Maynard	A brief biography of the man who helped open the way west to California and was later elected as a United States Senator from that state.	OL5823429W
The Louisiana Purchase	Magdalena Alagna	Explains the events surrounding the Louisiana Purchase, through which President Jefferson acquired enough land to make the United States one of the largest nations in the world.	OL5953590W
The Louisiana Purchase	Elizabeth Dana Jaffe	Explains the events that led Napoleon Bonaparte to sell the Louisiana Territory and the difficulties that Thomas Jefferson had in making the purchase that doubled the size of the United States.	OL6208501W