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U.S. History: Westward Expansion: Overview

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Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny

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America: History & Life (EBSCO)

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History Databases at SMU

Primary Sources

American West
Primary sources on westward expansion in America from the 1700s-1900s
History Vault: American Indians and American West

Covers Native Americans & the westward migration of White settlers from 1809-1971, includes primary sources
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters
Lives from the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920
American Periodicals Series
American serials from 1741-1900
Early American Newspapers
Newspapers published from 1690-1922
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection

American periodicals published from 1681-1926 on a range of topics
American History, 1493-1945
Documents American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century
Migration to New Worlds
Depictions by emigrants from Europe & Asia about their moves to the Americas & Australasia, 1800-1900s
Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture
Documents British & American working class tourism from 1850-1980
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

Primary Sources: 1800s

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