19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Crime of the Century
Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The story behind the attack that shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime.
On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless...
German History 1789-1871
From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate toward Prussia or treat Germany's southern and northern regions as separate entities or else are thematically compartmentalized....
Prelude to the Dust Bowl
Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinterpreting our nation’s...
by Steve Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
How a female investigative journalist brought down the world’s greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.
Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business...
Five Points
The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points,...
by Philip McFarland
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The author of Hawthorne in Concord “brings [Stowe] to life in all her glory, in a book at once so dramatic and so subtle that it rivals the best fiction” (Debby Applegate, author of The Most Famous Man in America**).**
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin forced an ambivalent North...
The Explorer King
Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax--Clarence King in the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In this, one of the year's most compelling biographies, Robert Wilson paints a brilliant portrait of Clarence King -- a scientist-explorer whose mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, river-fording, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth century.
A sort of Howard...
Culture and Comfort
Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility...
The Great Railroad Revolution
The History of Trains in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line––the first American railroad––in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort,...
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Building an Empire, 1846-1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world....
Negro with a Hat
The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin,...
Censoring Racial Ridicule
Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative...
by Basil A. Bouroff
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Basil A. Bouroff was an early 20th century clergyman who wrote this work about the concentration of wealth in America around the turn of the century. This kind of activism would help spur Teddy Roosevelt's anti-trust legislation.
by Kyle G. Volk
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies spurred by the explosion of grassroots...