Many social movements in the early 19th century had a religious foundation. Read about the Benevolent Empire, a loose coalition of Protestant denominations that addressed social issues of the time.

A brief overview of the idea of expansion of the United States overseas in the last part of the 19th century and the early 20th century.

In the early 19th century, most of the land that is now Alaska was claimed by the Russian empire, and its most significant community was Novo-Arkhangelsk, which today is called Sitka. From 1808 until the sale of Alaska to the United...

A collection of primary sources that explore the War of 1812.

A collection that uses primary sources to explore Jacksonian democracy.

The Art Museum at Princeton University has a permanent collection ranging over time from ancient to contemporary and from the Mediterranean to Western Europe, China, Latin America and the U.S. Greek and Roman antiquities and Roman...