INTRODUCTION.
    By the Editor

JACKSON'S FIRST ELECTION AS PRESIDENT (1828)
By James Parton

THE FIRST AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE, PETER COOPER'S "TOM THUMB" (1830)
By John H. B. Latrobe

STEAMBOAT TRAVEL ON INLAND WATERS (1830-1835)
by James Schouler

NULLIFICATION AND ITS OVERTHROW (1828-1832)
By Theodore Roosevelt

THE RUPTURE BETWEEN JACKSON AND CALHOUS (1831)
By Thomas H. Benton

THE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE (1831)
By James Schouler

HOW THE FEDERAL UNION WORKED TO THE INJURY OF THE SOUTH
By Thomas H. Benton

GARRISON AND HIS "LIBERATOR" (1831)
By Goldwin Smith

THE FIRST ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION (1833)
By John G. Whittier

THREE NORTHERN VIEWS OF THE ABOLITIONISTS:

I. By James G. Blaine

II. By Theodore Roosevelt

III. By Carl Schurz

CALHOUN'S VIEWS OF SLAVERY, HIS CHARACTER, AND HIS PERSONALITY
By John S. Jenkins

THE BLACK HAWK WAR (1832)
By Reuben Gold Thwaites

THE OVERTHROW OF THE UNITED STATES BANK (1832)

I. By Theodore Roosevelt

II. Jackson's Veto Message

THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI AS IN LAKE ITASCA (1832)
By Henry R. Schoolcraft

BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI EIGHTY YEARS AGO (1832)
By Washington Irving

CHICAGO AS A HAMLET AND A FORT (1833)
By Patrick Shirreff

HOW TEXAS BECAME INDEPENDENT (1836)
By Theodore Roosevelt

THE FALL OF THE ALAMO (1836)
By Captain R. M. Potter

HOUSTON'S SEIZURE OF TEXAS (1836)
By Horace Greeley

THE BATTLE OF SAN JACENTO (1836)

I. By Cyrus Townsend Brady

II. Houston's Comments on the Battle

THE MOBBING OF GARRISON IN BOSTON (1835)
Garrison's Own Account

THE MURDER OF LOVEJOY (1837)
By Horace Greeley

THE PANIC OF 1837
By Edward M. Shepard

THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR (1838-1839)
By Thomas H. Benton

THE "TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO" CAMPAIGN (1840)
By Horace Greeley