Books.

Westward Expansion. E. C. Barker, Mexico and Texas, 1821--1835 (1928). Ray Allen Billington, Westward Expansion, rev. ed. (1974); The Far Western Frontier, 1830--1860 (1956). William C. Brinkley, The Texas Revolution (1952). R. G. Cleland, From Wilderness to Empire: A History of California, 1542--1900 (1944). Lawrence B. de Graf, Kevin Milroy and Quintard Taylor, Eds. Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, 1769-1997 (2001). R. L. Duffus, The Santa Fe Trail (1930). Robert R. Dystra, Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier (1993). John M. Faragher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979). T. R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans (1968). William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire (1966). Norman A. Graebner, Empire of the Pacific (1955). J. S. Holiday, The World Rushed In (1981). David Alan Johnson, Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890 (1992). Donald D. Johnson with Gary Dean Best, The United States in the Pacific: Private Interests and Public Policies, 1784-1899 (1995). Laura Maffly-Kipp, Religion and Society in Frontier California (1994). Frederick Merk, History of the Westward Movement (1978); Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History (1963); Fruits of Propaganda in the Tyler Administration (1971); Slavery and the Annexation of Texas (1972); The Oregon Question (1967); The Monroe Doctrine and American Expansionism, 1843--1849 (1966); Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail (1849). R. W. Paul, California Gold (1947). Christopher Phillips, Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West (2000). James Simeone, Democracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois: The Bottomland Republic (2000). Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land (1950). Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny (1995). John D. Unruh, The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840--1860 (1979). Albert K. Weinberg, Manifest Destiny (1935). O. O. Winther, The Great Northwest, rev. ed. (1950).

Expansion and the Mexican War. K. Jack Bauer, The Mexican-American War, 1846--1848 (1974). Samuel F. Bemis, ed., American Secretaries of State, vols. 5 and 6 (1928). G. M. Brack, Mexico Views Manifest Destiny, 1821--1846 (1975). S. V. Conner and O. B. Faulk, North America Divided (1971). C. W. Elliott, Winfield Scott (1937). Holman Hamilton, Zachary Taylor, Soldier of the Republic (1941). Robert W. Johnson, To the Halls of Montezuma: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985). Robert E. May, The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854--1861 (1973). David M. Pletcher, The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War (1973). Basil Rauch, American Interest in Cuba, 1848--1855 (1948). J. S. Reeves, American Diplomacy Under Tyler and Polk (1907). John H. Schroeder, Mr. Polk's War: American Opposition and Dissent (1973). Charles G. Sellers, James K. Polk: Continentalist, 1843--1846 (1966). Otis A. Singletary, The Mexican War (1960). David J. Weber, The Mexican Frontier, 1821--1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico (1982).

The Sectional Crisis: General Studies. William J. Cooper, The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828--1856 (1978); Liberty and Slavery (1983). Avery Craven, The Coming of the Civil War (1942). William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion. Vol. 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (1990). James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire (1981); Battle Cry of Freedom (1988). Allan Nevins, The Ordeal of the Union, 2 vols. (1947); and The Emergence of Lincoln, 2 vols. (1950). Roy F. Nichols, The Disruption of American Democracy (1948). David Potter, The Impending Crisis (1976). James G. Randall and David Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction, rev. ed. (1969). Leonard L. Richards, The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000). Richard H. Sewell, A House Divided: Sectionalism and the Civil War, 1848--1865 (1988). Harlow W. Sheidley, Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815-1836 (1998).

The Compromise of 1850. Kinley J. Bauer, Cotton Versus Conscience: Massachusetts Whig Politics and Southern Expansion, 1843--1858 (1967). Richard N. Current, Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism (1955). Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., Daniel Webster and the Trial of American Nationalism, 1843--1852 (1973). Holman Hamilton, Prologue to Conflict: The Crisis and Compromise of 1850 (1964); Zachary Taylor: Soldier in the White House (1951). Thelma Jennings, The Nashville Convention (1980). Robert W. Johannsen, Stephen A. Douglas (1973). Chaplain W. Morrison, Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso Controversy (1973). Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1991). Charles M. Wiltse, John C. Calhoun: Sectionalist, 1840--1850 (1951).

Sectional Crises in the 1850s. Tyler Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (1992). Dale Baum, The Civil War Party System: The Case of Massachusetts 1848--1876 (1984). Frederick Blue, Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the North (1994). R. O. Boyer, The Legend of John Brown (1973). David Donald, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (1960). Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case (1978). Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men (1970); Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War (1980). J. C. Furnas, The Road to Harpers Ferry (1959). Paul W. Gates, Fifty Million Acres: Conflict over Kansas Land Policy, 1854--1890 (1954). William E. Gienapp, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 (1987). Michael Holt, The Political Crisis of the 1850s (1978). William Jenkins, Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South (1935). James C. Malin, The Nebraska Question (1953). Truman Nelson, The Old Man: John Brown at Harpers Ferry (1973). Stephen Oates, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown (1970). Christopher J. Olsen, Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860 (2000). Benjamin Quarles, Allies for Freedom (1974). Gunja SenGupta, For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860 (1996). Mitchell Snay, Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South (1993). Kenneth M. Stampp, America in 1857; A Nation on the Brink (1990). Harvey Wish, George Fitzhugh: Propagandist of the Old South (1943). Gerald Wolff, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1977).

The Emergence of Lincoln. Richard N. Current, The Lincoln Nobody Knows (1958). David Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered (1956). Don E. Fehrenbacher, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's (1962). George B. Forgie, Patricide in the House Divided (1979). Henry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1959); A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000).

Films.

Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom (1992). The American Story, No. 10: Manifest Destiny (1985). The Background of the Civil War (1981). The Civil War: Union at Risk (1989). The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The House Divides (1989). Texas & the Mexican Cession (1990). Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987).

Internet Resources.

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Texas-American Relations 1838-1846 - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/texmenu.htm
Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest - http://www.library.arizona.edu/pimeria/welcome.html
The Mexican-American War Memorial Page - http://sunsite.unam.mx/revistas/1847/Summa.html
Nineteenth Century Documents Project - http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/