19Th Century category: 5646 books
A Life Wild and Perilous
Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained...
Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho
Southern Arapaho
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting,...
by Stephen L. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers, focusing on the three-year period between 1835 and 1837, when Texas was struggling to gain its independence from Mexico and assert itself as a new nation. Stephen L. Moore...
Frontier Regulars
The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War.
Here are incisive accounts...
The Quack's Daughter
A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at “the first...
The Long Reconstruction
The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myths and legends spawned by these events. The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory brings together history and popular...
by Bryan Prince
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Isaac Brown, a slave, was accused of the attempted murder of a prominent plantation owner, despite there being no evidence of his guilt. Brown, after enduring two brutal floggings, was shipped to a New Orleans slave pen. From there the resourceful Brown was...
by Fitzhugh Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Fitzhugh Lee (November 19, 1835 April 28, 1905) was a cavalry officer for the Confederacy, the Governor of Virginia, and later a general in the Spanish-American War, fighting for the country that he had fought against over 30 years earlier. While all of this would be enough to earn him distinction,...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
On June 18, 1812, the United States formally declared war for the first time. President James Madison’s call to arms against Great Britain provoked outpourings of patriotic fervor and vigorous—some said treasonous—domestic opposition. Over the next three years the War of 1812 would prove as...
"Our Crowd"
The Great Jewish Families of New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The New York Times–bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America
They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side...
Diamonds, Gold, and War
The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between...
by Fanny Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed...
by John W. Blassingame
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was the idea of the emerging emancipated middle-class woman: economic independence from men, choice of occupation, participation...