In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward. His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident, for "What good man would prefer a ...

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward. His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident, for "What good man would prefer a ...

York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries Amanda Bellows Thomas Jefferson imagined the waterway as the heart of his “empire of liberty" as he ...