19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Steve Luxenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.
Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with “separate but equal,” created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet...
The Evolutionists
American Thinkers Confront Charles Darwin, 1860–1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Charles Darwin published his monumental treatise The Origin of Species in 1859. It has proved to be a major contribution to scientific theory but highly contentious as well. In the United States, more than in any other country, Darwin's theory of evolution became, and remains, a matter of "political"...
Oliver Hazard Perry
Honor, Courage, and Patriotism in the Early U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.S. Navy s most famous heroes. In this modern, scholarly reassessment of...
Who Rules the Synagogue?
Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the century, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's...
by Maury Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E. H. Harriman was as familiar a name as J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Like his fellow businessmen, Harriman (1847-1909) had become the symbol for an entire industry: Morgan stood for banking, Rockefeller for oil, Carnegie...
Representative Americans
Populists and Progressives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Populists and Progressives, Norman K Risjord's next book in the Representative Americans series, gives readers a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous turn of the twentieth century.
Risjord brings together brief biographies to explore the political, social, and cultural dimensions of the...
Main Street Oklahoma
Stories of Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both the singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the state’s connections to America’s...
Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight
Indian Views
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866—during Red Cloud’s War (1866–1868)—a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment...
by Philip Hubert
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Men of Achievement - INVENTORS (AN ILLUSTRATED NOVEL) Imagine getting a glipse into the minds of the GREATEST AMERICAN INVENTORS of history. This beautifully illustrated novel contains the stories of more then 20 of the Greatest American Inventors over the past century. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROBERT...
Urban Appetites
Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you’d better believe there’s an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international notoriety is a captivating one. The now-booming...
The People's Network
The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Famous for his military acumen and for his part in saving the Union during the American Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant also remains known for his two-volume memoirs, considered among the greatest military memoirs ever written. Grant’s other writings, however, have not received the same acclaim, even...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
First published in 1973. This title aims to use contemporary documents to illustrate the attitudes and relationships of working men towards each other and against other groups in society in the years 1815 to 1850. The material comes under three headings; the analysis of class in terms of economic...
The Workhouse System 1834-1929
The History of an English Social Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929.
At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills....