19Th Century category: 5646 books

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) was a 19th century politician and political theorist from South Carolina. Calhoun stressed the importance of liberty and also wrote about his views on the U.S. Constitution and government. This version of Calhouns A Disquisition on Government includes a table of contents.

Sketches of St. Augustine with a View of Its History and Advantages as a Resort for Invalids is an early history of Florida, pitched as a resort, written in the 19th century.

The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox coalition led by the Russian Empire and composed of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Fought in the Balkans and in the Caucasus, it originated in emerging 19th-century Balkan nationalism....

The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky, originally published in 1831, is an account of Pattie's travels to the frontier in the early 19th century.

From 14th Colony to Confederation, 1749 - 1867: Governors, Placemen, & the Merchant Elite by A. D. Boutilier:  6 x 9  - 288 pp., with 100 plus photos/sketches. ISBN 9781895814668 – $21.95;   ©June, 2017. E-Pub3 also available as ISBN 9781895814675. Contains four appendices of Governors/Lieutenant-Governors...

By the middle of the 19th century, slavery had created a fevered pitch in the politics of the country, as abolitionists and slavery proponents fought a war of words and actual wars in Kansas and Nebraska. While the South postured for secession, abolitionists, both white and black, created a stronger...

Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the...

This work studies a narrative devoted to the history of the Kokand Khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries, controlling territory equal to continental western Europe, until it was conquered by the Russian Empire in 1876. This unique manuscript,...

History is written by the victors. But do the victors in America's forgotten debate really have it right? Do they even think about whether it is America's destiny to be both a nanny state and garrison state? American's Forgotten History questions standard understanding from a constitutionalist point...

*Includes pictures of each leader, and important people, places, and events in their lives. *Includes an original introduction for each leader.*Includes a bibliography for each leader.*Includes a Table of ContentsDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most...

Since the very beginning of American history, African Americans have served alongside their white counterparts in virtually every major armed conflict on the high seas. This was especially true during the Civil War. The Union Navy continued to experience a shortage of available manpower to sufficiently...

The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815 is the first academic history of the state established by Napoleon in pre-partitioned Poland at the turn of the 19th century. The book examines the political, social and cultural dynamics of the Duchy and considers its role in Napoleon's wider empire and the politics...