The Americans

A diverse and divided people. The women, Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants and others who made up the antebellum republic.

The People

Five peoples of a divided nation

The many Americans who lived through the antebellum decades.

Women's lives, work and the first stirrings of the women's movement.

Native nations in an age of removal and broken treaties.

Enslaved and free Black Americans in the decades before the war.

The new arrivals who reshaped the cities and the workforce.

The many other communities that made up a diverse nation.

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