19Th Century category: 5646 books
National Duties
Custom Houses and the Making of the American State
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In the wake of the American Revolution, if you had asked a citizen whether his fledgling state would survive more than two centuries, the answer would have been far from confident. The problem, as is so often the case, was money. Left millions of dollars of debt by the war, the nascent federal government...
"I Am a Man"
Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a...
by David Brion Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture...
by William C. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2018
In Lincoln and Congress, William C. Harris reveals that the relationship between the president and Congress, though sometimes contentious, was cooperative rather than adversarial. During his time as president, Abraham Lincoln embodied...
President McKinley
Architect of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a president” (The New York Times Book Review) whose low place in the presidential rankings does not...
Great Issues in American History, Vol. III
From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
The third volume in Great Issues In American History, From Reconstruction to the Present Day is now updated and revised to include another decade of American history. Beatrice K. Hofstadter, wife of the late Richard Hofstadter and herself an historian who worked with him closely on the original edition,...
by Prithwindra Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Most people believe India’s struggle for independence to have begun with Mahatma Gandhi. Little credit goes to the proof that this call for a mass movement did not arise out of a void. For the past century and more, historians have overlooked the phase of twenty-five years of intense creative endeavour...
The Annotated Works of Henry George
Progress and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent...
by Marcus Rainsford
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of this momentous event. This new edition is the first to appear since the original publication...
by Walter Fredrick
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A brief account of the interactions of the Chinese with the foreign powers in the mid nineteenth century, a time when China and her Great Wall were crumbling in the face of the western world.
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The American War of Sucession – 1861-1862 {Illustrated Edition]
Bull Run to Malvern Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps, and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
An excellent account of the first two years of the American Civil War, Major Redway sifts through the wealth of material available to give...
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti
Comprising an Account of the Struggle for Liberty in the Island, and a Sketch of Its History to the Present Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence. He led thousands of former slaves into battle against French, Spanish, and English forces, routing the Europeans and seizing control of the entire island of Hispaniola. L'Ouverture became governor and...
by James West Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History...
Science, Race, and Religion in the American South
John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States--Philadelphia, Boston, and New York--exceeded Charleston in natural history studies, and the city boasted an...