The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840's, it was pouring into Texas.

Frontier inhabitants were eager to strike at the British in Canada because they suspected them of arming Native American tribes that were standing in the way of America's westward expansion. Many ...

In consultation with Native Americans, the museum at the Homestead Monument continues to recognize the struggles and ...

Set within one of the more brutal and uncompromising periods of American history - the 19th Century Westward expansion - the show depicts the run-up to and fallout around one of the biggest ...

‘American Primeval’ Team on Portraying the Brutal History of America’s Westward Expansion: “The Truth of This World Is Violent” Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman ...

Back in the 19th century, celebrations of territorial expansion were commonplace among American historians. In his multi-volume account of The Winning of the West and other historical writings ...

Yale University history professor Ned Blackhawk and Patricia Limerick of the Center of the American West discussed the interactions between Native Americans and white settlers in the 19th century.

William Hogeland and Peter Cozzens talk about military conflict with Native Americans during America's westward expansion at the 2017 Gaithersburg Book Festival.

Westward Expansion Frederick Jackson Turner, the great historian of the late 19th century, said it was on the frontier that democracy was born, that American ideas of equality were born, ...