19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Myth of Seneca Falls
Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her...
History of the United States (Vol. 1-7)
The Great Migration, The American Revolution, The Formation of the Constitution, Foundations of the Union, Civil War and Reconstruction, America as World Power (From the Colonial Period to World War I)
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "History of the United States" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "History of the United States" is a monumental synthesis of American History subsequently produced by Charles A. Beard and his wife,...
To Make Our World Anew
Volume II: A History of African Americans Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is...
Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs
Being a story of the nation’s most famous (and infamous) detective agency
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that...
Looking for Lincoln in Illinois
Lincoln and Mormon Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Winner, ISHS Superior Achievement Award, 2016
Although they inhabited different political, social, and cultural arenas, Abraham Lincoln and the pioneer generation of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, shared the same nineteenth-century world. Bryon C. Andreasen’s Looking for Lincoln in Illinois:...
Gold!
The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A riveting true account of gold rush fever in mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with the thrilling exploits of daring fortune seekers and dangerous outlaws
America was never the same after January 24, 1848. It was on that day that a carpenter named James Marshall discovered a tiny nugget...
Revolt of the Tar Heels
The North Carolina Populist Movement, 1890â??1901
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
During the 1890s, North Carolina witnessed a political revolution as the newly formed Populist Party joined with the Republicans to throw out do-nothing, conservative Democrats. Focusing on political transformation, electoral reform, and new economic policies to aid poor and struggling farmers, the...
Party Games
Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival, but he adds a cautionary note about the dark...
A New South Rebellion
The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of Populism and Gilded Age unionism, the miners initially...
Sixteenth President-in-Waiting
Abraham Lincoln and the Springfield Dispatches of Henry Villard, 1860–1861
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019
Between Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860 and his departure for Washington three months later, journalist Henry Villard sent scores of dispatches from Springfield, Illinois, to various newspapers describing the president-elect’s...
by Marial Iglesias Utset
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In this cultural history of Cuba during the United States' brief but influential occupation from 1898 to 1902--a key transitional period following the Spanish-American War--Marial Iglesias Utset sheds light on the complex set of pressures that guided the formation and production of a burgeoning Cuban...
The Tory World
Deep History and the Tory Theme in British Foreign Policy, 1679-2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Political decisions are never taken in a vacuum but are shaped both by current events and historical context. In other words, long-term developments and patterns in which the accumulated memory of what came earlier, can greatly (and sometimes subconsciously) influence subsequent policy choices. Working...
Lives and Times
Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose activities and ideas were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists...
by ORAN
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Before the canal, there was the railroad to connect the great oceans. This short pieces tells of the building of the railroad across the isthmus in the mid nineteenth century and details a journey by hand car on the line shortly after it was completed.