19Th Century category: 5646 books
Changing National Identities at the Frontier
Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
This book explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and...
Empire of Shadows
The Epic Story of Yellowstone
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you'll never think of our first—in many ways our greatest—national
park in the same way again."
—Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder
Empire of...
Red Round Globe Hot Burning
A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed...
Undaunted Courage
Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson...
by Ralph K. Andrist
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
The Erie Canal was a preposterous idea. Even President Thomas Jefferson, usually ahead of his time, believed that it could not be built for at least a century, and yet, the Erie Canal came to be just as its planners had thought it would. For the first time in the history of the United States, a cheap,...
The Napoleon of Crime
The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . .
--Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in...
The Dawn's Early Light
The War of 1812 and the Battle That Inspired Francis Scott Key to Write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
A riveting account of America’s second war with England, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the great powers of Western Europe treated the United States like a disobedient child. Great Britain blocked American...
by Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The Modern Library’s number-one nonfiction book of the twentieth century and winner of the Pulitzer Prize: The acclaimed memoir of a brilliant man reckoning with an era of profound change
The great-grandson of President John Adams and the grandson of President John Quincy Adams, Henry Adams...
The Dictionary Wars
The American Fight over the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English
In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival...
The Year Without Summer
1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816...
The Devil in the White City
A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
**In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect...
Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of...
Self-Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies
A Nineteenth-Century Treatise on Boxing, Kicking, Grappling, and Fencing with the Cane and Quarterstaff
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
*Self-Defense for Gentlemen and Ladies *is the treatise of Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery, a master swordsman who participated in more than fifty duels, fought under twelve flags, battled gangsters, and was constantly involved in the great conflicts and upheavals of his time. This book is the magnum...
The Mirror at Midnight
A South African Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
A “stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation” by the New York Times–bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost (Publishers Weekly).
National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime’s familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination...