SUBJECT: POST-CIVIL WAR AMERICA:
EXPANSIONISM
19th c: Reconstruction
19th c: Lynchings (19th & 20th c)
19th c: Jim Crow
19th c: Immigration (also, see below)
19th c: "Tourist" Literature
19th c: Censuses
Westward Expansion: W. NY/Ohio Valley 18c
Westward Expansion: The Plains
Westward Expansion: The Rockies
Westward Expansion: The Far West
Westward Expansion: The Northwest
19th c: Interior Travel
19th c: The Frontier & Pioneers
19th c: Homesteads & Homesteading
19th c: Treaties: w/Native American Tribes
19th c: Treaties: Foreign Diplomatic Relations
19th c: Politics: Parties: Republicans
19th c: Politics: Parties: Democrats
19th c: Politics: Parties: Whigs
19th c: Politics: Parties: American (anti-immigrant)
19th c: Politics: Parties: Fee Soil, etc.
19th c: Politics: Parties: Constitutional Union
19th c: Politics: Parties: Other third parties
19th c: Politics: Conventions & Platforms
19th c: Politics: Woman's Suffrage
19th c: Politics & Elections
19th c: Credit Mobilier Scandal (1872)
19th c: Financial History, Taxes & Tariff
19th c: Manufacturing & Industry
19th c: Trade & Commerce
19th c: Expeditions for Resources
19th c: Mining: Silver, Lead, Iron, Oil, Coal
19th c: Surveying & Topography
19th c: "Improvements" & Development:
Canals
Roads, turnpikes, highways
Bridges & tunnels
Railroads (iron horse), streetcars
Steamboats, ferries
Harbor, river improvements, navigation
Utilities: gas, water, & sewers
The telegraph
19th c: Labor History & Reform Movements
19th c: Labor: The Mollie Maguires
19th c: Education-Higher
19th c: Education-Textbooks
19th c: Education-Sunday School
19th c: Medicine, Medical practice
19th c: Medicine: Homoeopathy
19th c: Cholera, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever
19th c: Medicine: Phrenology
19th c: Medicine: Pharmacology
19th c: Engineering & Mechanics
19th c: Libraries, Librarianship
19th c: (mostly) Sermons
19th c: (mostly) Addresses
19th c: (mostly) Lectures
19th c: (mostly) Orations
19th c: Social Institutions: Charities
19th c: Social Institutions: Prisons
19th c: Poor Laws & the Poor
19th c: Foreign Observers of US Society
19th c: Travels (mostly interior)
19th c: Americans Abroad (incl missionaries)
19th c: Temperance, Cards, Billiards, Sin
19th c: Religion in America (gen. works)
19th c: Churches: Puritan
19th c: Churches: Congregational
19th c: Churches: Methodism
19th c: Churches: Presbyterian
19th c: Churches: Moravian
19th c: Churches: Baptist
19th c: Churches: Lutheran
19th c: Churches: Mormon (1830- )
19th c: Churches: Quakers/Soc of Friends
19th c: Churches: Unitarian
19th c: Churches: Episcopal / Anglican
19th c: Churches: Catholic
19th c: Churches: Pentecostal
19th c: Churches: Huguenot
19th c: Churches: Disciples of Christ
19th c: Churches: Jewish (faith)
19th c: Churches: Christian Science
19th c: Churches: Dutch Reformed
19th c: Churches: Shakers (1774- )
19th c: Churches: Seventh-Day Adventist
19th c: Churches: Universalism
19th c: Churches: Revivalism
19th c: Atheism, Skepticism, Rationalism
19th c: Anti-atheism, Anti-rationalism
19th c: Spiritualism & Clairvoyants
19th c: Anti-Catholicism
19th c: Religion & Science
19th c: Religion & Public Education
19th c: Religious Edu: Sunday Schools
19th c: 1876: Custer, Big Horn, Sitting Bull
19th c: Closing of the Frontier
19th c: 1884: New Orleans Exposition
19th c: 1886: Haymarket Affair (Chicago)
19th c: 1893: Columbian Exposition
19th c: 1898: Spanish-American War
19th c: 1898: Trans-Mississippi Expo (Omaha)
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1860
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1864
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1868
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1872
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1876
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1880
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1884
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1888
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1892
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1896
19th c: Politics: Election Campaigns: 1900
19th-20th c: Machine Politics / Corruption
19th-20th c: Industrialists, Robber Barons
19th-20th c: Conservation Movement
19th-20th c: Utopian Communities
19th-20th c: Immigration
19th-20th c: Progressive Era (Age of Reform)