19Th Century category: 5646 books
Whitewashing America
Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life."
Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum...
A City for Children
Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration...
Bankside
London's Original District of Sin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
On the south bank of the Thames and demarcated by Blackfriars and Tower Bridges lies the district known as Bankside, the Borough and Southwark. Its origin was in a Roman settlement nestling around the southern end of London Bridge, until the eighteenth century the only bridge across the Thames in...
In the Watches of the Night
Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his modest beginnings and forlorn surroundings, Chesnutt...
by Ronald R. Switzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand...
Horse-Drawn Days
A Century of Farming with Horses
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Before tractors or steam engines arrived on the farm, horses did all the heavy work. From spring plowing to the fall harvest, the mighty draft horse powered farms across the Midwest. Relied upon to complete a multitude of tasks, including towing threshing machines and plows, hauling milk to the local...
The Sweat of Their Brow
Occupations in the 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
America in the 1800s was a very hard-working society. Early in the century, farmers, craftsmen, and housewives worked very much the way they had for centuries—by their own physical labor and "the sweat of their brow." The growing industrial economy brought millions of workers—people leaving their...
by Paul N. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
John Harris Rogers (1863-1930) served in Texas law enforcement for more than four decades, as a Texas Ranger, Deputy and U.S. Marshal, city police chief, and in the private sector as a security agent. He is recognized in history as one of the legendary Four Captains of the Ranger force that helped make...
Ned Christie
The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious...
The Famine Plot
England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on...
Virtual Modernism
Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein,...
by Martin Coppen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The Revd Henry Burnaby Greene was the vicar of the north-west Hampshire village of Longparish for a remarkable 63 years in the middle of the nineteenth century. He oversaw the restoration of the parish church and masterminded the rerouting of the village street. This detailed but short biography is...
by Nina Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, New York Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of history in the life and times of the man responsible for the creation of the United States' principal cultural institution, the Smithsonian. It...