19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Milton Rugoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
"Rugoff's spirited and immensely beguiling book takes a joyful bite out of the nineteenth century." - The New York Times. "King of the Lobbyists" Sam Ward was best known for his talent for throwing parties - courtesy of the U.S. Treasury. And Alva Vanderbilt squandered tens of...
Manhood Enslaved
Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving...
Paradise Now
The Story of American Utopianism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism—and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history’s most influential utopian movements.
In...
Apacheria
True Stories of Apache Culture 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century. These snippets of history and culture provide insights into late nineteenth century Apache culture, history,...
The Slaves' Gamble
Choosing Sides in the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Images of American slavery conjure up cotton plantations and African American slaves locked in bondage until the Civil War. Yet early on in the nineteenth century the state of slavery was very different, and the political vicissitudes of the young nation offered diverse possibilities to slaves. In...
by Mitchell Snay
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was a major figure in nineteenth century American history. As a newspaper editor, politician, and reformer, Greeley was involved with the major events and trends of the era. He was the influential editor of the New York Tribune from 1841 until his death and was instrumental...
Adopting America
Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity. In narratives from the seventeenth to the early twentieth...
Horace Greeley
Champion of American Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city’s ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune...
by Waldo E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, however,...
Californio Portraits
Baja California's Vanishing Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly...
Fire on the Beach
Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THIS IS THE TRUE-LIFE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL COAST GUARD AND ONE CREW OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HEROES WHO FOUGHT STORMS AND SAVED LIVES OFF NORTH CAROLINA'S OUTER BANKS.
Fire on the Beach recovers a lost gem of American history. It tells the story of...
by John Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
In industrial Lancashire, as in few other English communities, the turn of the twentieth century could be seen as modern times dressed in bowler hats and moustaches. Photographs of street scenes taken in Manchester and Burnley, Oldham and Accrington in the 1890s take us to a world that had been disciplined...
Liberty or Death
The French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe...