19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Pamela Horn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
It was a paradox of nineteenth-century Britain that while work was the bedrock upon which the Victorian vision of progress was constructed, the years between 1837 and 1901 also saw the greatest upsurge in leisure pursuits hitherto witnessed. Pamela Horn sets the various activities enjoyed by the Victorians...
by Glenda Riley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
With a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The archetypal western...
by Isabelle S. Sayers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
"You are a very, very clever little girl." — Queen Victoria to Annie Oakley
Her life was the stuff of legend — from humble Quaker origins in Darke County, Ohio, Annie Oakley (nee Phoebe Ann Moses) rose to the heights of renown as a world-famous entertainer and featured performer with Buffalo...
Forge of Empires
Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power:
Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race and transformed the American Republic.
Tsar Alexander II broke the chains of the serfs...
Sons of the White Eagle in the American Civil War
Polish Officers on Both Sides of the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book describes nine transplanted Poles who participated in the Civil War. They span three generations and are connected by culture, nationality and adherence to their principles and ideals. The common thread that runs through their lives—the Polish White Eagle—is that they came from a country...
The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio
The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.
In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant...
by David Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
A Brief look at the Pan American Exposition with Illustration by Andre Casaigne and Harry Fenn.
The Bonanza King
John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal**) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take...
Death of a Texas Ranger
A True Story of Murder and Vengeance on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Death of a Texas Ranger is the thrilling, action-packed story of the murder of Texas Ranger John Green by Cesario Menchaca, one of three Rangers of Mexican descent under Green’s command. Immediately word spread that the killing may have been the botched outcome of a contract taken out on Menchaca’s...
Butterfly People
An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries...
Dispossessing the Wilderness
Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these...
by Gregg Mangan
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Connecticut's character runs much deeper than breathtaking fall foliage and quaint coastal towns. One day at a time, author Gregg Mangan chronicles fascinating episodes in state history, from the earliest European settlements to the modern era. After a lengthy debate, the state senate voted in favor...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
This bundle book is a compilation of four of KidCaps top selling history books.
This book presents the following subjects in an easy to understand format that kids love:
*The Cotton Gin
*The Birth of Flight
*The Invention of the Automobile
Bold Spirit
Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter...