A Short History of the Department of State
- 1801–1829: Securing the Republic
- Barbary Wars, 1801–1805 and 1815–1816
- Napoleonic Wars and the United States, 1803–1815
- Louisiana Purchase, 1803
- War of 1812–1815
- Rush-Bagot Pact, 1817 and Convention of 1818
- Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821)
- Monroe Doctrine, 1823