19Th Century category: 5646 books
Working on the Dock of the Bay
Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers—black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant—in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the...
Fall River Outrage
Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall...
The Claims of Kinfolk
African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the "freedom generation" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships among...
Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst,...
Mastered by the Clock
Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly...
The History of Public Library Access for African Americans in the South
Or, Leaving Behind the Plow
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
The story of the long struggle of African Americans to attain civil rights, particularly in the South, is well documented. The story of the public library movement in America is also well documented. However, the story of the African American struggle for access to public libraries in the South is...
I Am Murdered
George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
"A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation's most influential state."
—Publishers Weekly
George Wythe clung to the mahogany banister as he inched down the staircase of his comfortable Richmond, Virginia, home....
Israel
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Written by one of Israel’s most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day. Organized chronologically, the volume explores the emergence of Zionism in Europe against the backdrop...
Through Five Administrations
Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
A fascinating behind-the-scenes account of life at the White House in the second half of the nineteenth century
Hired in January 1865 as one of four White House bodyguards assigned to protect the president, Colonel William H. Crook—a Union army veteran and member of the Washington Police...
by Michael J. Winstanley
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This pamphlet makes use of the most recent revisionist literature to reassess the view, much propagated by nationalist sources, that Ireland was a land of impoverished peasants oppressed by English laws and absentee English landlords.
The land question has always been closely linked to the development...
by Nell Irvin Painter
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
"A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews
Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an...
Heir to the Empire City
New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president-a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was...
by Neil R. A. Bell, Trevor N. Bond, Kate Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying than fiction. In this book, four eminent crime...
Bourgeois Nightmares
Suburbia, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2005
The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents’ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market,...