19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Wall That Failed
How One Community Navigated the Shifting Sands of Integration in West Texas
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
A wall that was five feet high and built of concrete, rock, and mortar split Crane, Texas, in half more than a half century ago—with blacks on one side and whites on the other. Evelyn Rossler Stroder, a longtime teacher, gave little thought to the wall as she ran teacher errands to the former Bethune...
Out Where the West Begins
Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody—helped lay the groundwork for what we now call the American...
by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written...
by David Baron
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
This “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR) brings to life the momentous eclipse that enthralled a nation and thrust American science onto the world stage.
On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on the American...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
One of our greatest historians offers a surprising new view of the greatest historian of the nineteenth century, Henry Adams.
Wills showcases Henry Adams's little-known but seminal study of the early United States and elicits from it fresh insights on the paradoxes that roil America to this...
by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Here, the eminent historian Christopher Hibbert explores life in Victorian England, a time when the British Empire was at its height, when the prosperous English basked in the Pax Britannica and thought their progress and stability would go on forever.
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The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature
At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907,...
Home Sweet Home
Around the House in the 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
In rough frontier cabins, tidy farmhouses, and elegant townhouses, Americans in the 1800s were dedicated to living as well and as comfortably as their circumstances allowed. The American home was a sacred institution, the seat of family life where the patriarch ruled with Mother at his side as guardian...
Iron Confederacies
Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance...
Watkins Mill
The Factory on the Farm
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
When Waltus Watkins, a successful farmer and entrepreneur, decided to open a woolen mill on his rural western Missouri property in the late 1850s, he was not just undertaking another commercial venture. By locating the factory on his farm rather than in one of the thriving nearby towns, Watkins made...
Assault on the Deadwood Stage
Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the "good guys...
by Robert Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
George Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting £27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising £5 million and bribing MPs along the way. But...
Wagons West
The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian).
In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from...
Riding the Catawissa
Pennsylvania 1862
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A Mid Nineteenth Century trip along the recently completed Catawissa Railroad in Rural Pennsylvania.