Menu
Excerpts
Exhibits
Collections
Originals
Categories
Map
Search
Idea
westward expansion
274
Filter by:
Date Published
Filter by published date
Published On or After:
Published On or Before:
Filter
Cancel
Viewing 271–274 of 274 results.
Go to first page
Inventing Alexander Hamilton
The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.
by
William Hogeland
via
Boston Review
on
November 1, 2007
American Green
How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
by
Ted Steinberg
via
Longreads
on
March 15, 2006
John Muir's 1897 Case for Saving America's Forests
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, and avalanches; but he cannot save them from fools—only Uncle Sam can do that."
by
John Muir
via
The Atlantic
on
August 1, 1897
A Balkanized Federation
Without a shared civic narrative – the pursuit of liberal democratic self-government – the rival regional cultures of the United States agree on very little.
via
Nationhood Lab
Filters
Filter Results:
Search for a term by which to filter:
Suggested Filters:
Idea
white settlers
American Indians
dispossession
frontier
expansionism
Indian removal
mythology
land ownership
Manifest Destiny
American Indian Wars
Person
John Wesley Powell
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Hannah Duston
Frederick Jackson Turner
George Washington
John Morgan Rhys
Henry Knox
William Crawford