19Th Century category: 5646 books
Masks Of Anarchy
The History Of A Radical Poem, From Percy Shelley To The Triangle Factory Fire
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Percy Shelley’s poem “The Masque
of Anarchy,” from its conception in Italy and suppression in England to the moment it became a
catalyst for protest among New York City workers a century later.
Shelley penned the poem in 1819, after hearing...
by Robert M. Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table. It lays out a case for considering the Mormon scripture as the work of Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century not an ancient document written by various Israelites in ancient America. But author Robert M. Price argues...
L'affaire Dreyfus et la conspiration de l'État
Lutter pour la vérité et la justice
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’affaire Dreyfus en moins d’une heure !Fait marquant de l’histoire de France, l’affaire Dreyfus provoque de vifs débats en cette fin de XIXe siècle. La condamnation injuste du tristement célèbre Alfred Dreyfus sonne comme un signal d’alerte...
El caso Dreyfus
La conspiración del Estado francés y la lucha por la verdad y la justicia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el caso Dreyfus, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Entender el marco histórico en el que se produce el caso Dreyfus, con una Francia recién derrotada contra...
Once Upon a Team
The Epic Rise and Historic Fall of Baseball's Wilmington Quicksteps
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 1884, professional baseball was still in its infancy. The National League was less than a decade old, the National Association (which had been around since 1871) was now defunct, the American Association (which began two years earlier) were nipping at the NL’s heels, and a new league—the Union...
Love, Fiercely
A Gilded Age Romance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The true story of the New York society couple portrayed in the John Singer Sargent painting—an architect and an heiress who became passionate reformers.
Contemporaries of the Astors and Vanderbilts, they grew up together along the shores of bucolic Staten Island, linked by privilege—her...
West from Appomattox
The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
“This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics” (Publishers Weekly).
The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great.
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story...
The War That Forged a Nation
Why the Civil War Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured...
A Shopkeeper's Millennium
Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city....
What's God Got to Do With It?
Robert Ingersoll on Free Thought, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Robert Ingersoll (1833—1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and tireless advocate of the rights of women and African...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
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The Negro Problem
Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far...
Accidental Presidents
Eight Men Who Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
An Indian History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribes
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American...