19Th Century category: 5646 books
1865
America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the...
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by David W. Hogan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 8 maps and numerous other illustrations
One hundred and fifty years ago this spring, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched the campaign that marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil War. For over a month, he and General Robert E. Lee were locked in a remorseless struggle...
by Mary Cable
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
The age of high society in the United States was remarkably brief but also glorious. The names of the families of "people-we-know" - from Astor to Vanderbilt, McCormick to Palmer, Cabot to Whitney - and the places they called home - Fifth Avenue, Newport, Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Prairie...
by Mary Cable
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
New Orleans has been decimated from time to time by disease, fire, and hurricanes. In 1788, 900 buildings burned to the ground because the church bells used to summon firefighters had been stilled in deference to Good Friday. It is the birthplace of jazz and the Mardi Gras, and at one time, was described...
After Lincoln
How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.
With Lincoln’s assassination, his “team of rivals,” in Doris Kearns...
Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth
Ulysses S. Grant's Postpresidential Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
In 1877 former president Ulysses S. Grant, along with his family and friends, embarked on a two-year world tour that took him from Liverpool to Yokohama with stops throughout Europe and Asia. Biographies of Grant deal very briefly, if at all, with this tour and generally treat it as a pleasure trip...
by Patricia Cline Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...
by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Until the early twentieth century, life in the American West could be rough and sometimes vicious. Those who brought thieves and murderers to justice at times had to employ tactics as ruthless as their prey. In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies of the West’s most recognized man-hunters,...
Shadows at Dawn
An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history
In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack,...
A Newer World
Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
John C. Frémont, nearly forgotten today, was one of the giants of nineteenth-century America. He led five expeditions into the American West in the 1840s and 1850s, covering a greater area than any other explorer. His expedition reports -- ghost-written by his beautiful and talented wife, Jessie...
Violent Encounters
Interviews on Western Massacres
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional...
Jefferson's Second Revolution
The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
An “excellent” history of the tumultuous early years of American government, and a constitutional crisis sparked by the Electoral College (Booklist).
In the election of 1800, Federalist incumbent John Adams, and the elitism he represented, faced Republican Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson defeated...
by Luke E. Harlow
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. The central...
Bind Us Apart
How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through...