1800–1810: Doubling a Nation, Testing a Republic
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In the first decade of the nineteenth century, the young United States nearly doubled in size overnight, sent explorers into the unknown West, and watched Europe tear itself apart under Napoleon. Jim Rand walks through the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, the Embargo Act, and the quiet birth of future giants while ordinary Americans tried to hold a fragile republic together. Stability, self-reliance, and the long view matter more than ever.
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