Thirteen rebel colonies become a republic — and turn toward the west.
By 1800: sixteen states, the Northwest and Indiana territories, and a boundary at the Mississippi.
The atlas holds 9 border frames for United States — the shape you scrub through changes in 1776 · 1783 · 1795 · 1803 · 1819 · 1845 · 1848 · 1853 · 1867.
A history of the American Revolution and the birth of the republic.
The founding era of the early United States and its turn toward the west (broad context).
The whaling republic at full stretch — the great American novel of the sea.
The antebellum Mississippi and the nation’s original sin, from a raft.