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From Jackson to Lincoln : democracy and dissent / by Robert Parks ... [et al.]; with an introduction by David Brian Davis.

Contributor(s): Parks, Robert (Robert E.) | Pierpont Morgan Library.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, c1995Description: 119 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0875981135 (alk. paper); 9780875981130 (alk. paper).Subject(s): United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865 -- Exhibitions | United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Exhibitions | Americana -- Exhibitions | Pierpont Morgan Library -- Exhibitions | Gilder Lehrman Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library) -- Catalogs
Contents:
Preface -- A documentary mosaic of America -- From Jackson to Lincoln: democracy and dissent -- "Native Principles" -- The United States in 1820: the Missouri Compromise -- The presidency of Andrew Jackson -- Removal of Native Americans -- An age of reform -- American literature comes of age -- Audubon and the artist-naturalist tradition in America -- An age of exploration and innovation -- The annexation of Texas and the Mexican war -- Intensification of sectionalism -- "A House Divided" and the election of 1860 -- Checklist of the exhibition -- For further reading.
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Catalog of an exhibition held Sept. 14, 1995 - Jan 7, 1996, at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, N.Y.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-119)

Preface -- A documentary mosaic of America -- From Jackson to Lincoln: democracy and dissent -- "Native Principles" -- The United States in 1820: the Missouri Compromise -- The presidency of Andrew Jackson -- Removal of Native Americans -- An age of reform -- American literature comes of age -- Audubon and the artist-naturalist tradition in America -- An age of exploration and innovation -- The annexation of Texas and the Mexican war -- Intensification of sectionalism -- "A House Divided" and the election of 1860 -- Checklist of the exhibition -- For further reading.

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