19Th Century category: 5646 books
Black Life on the Mississippi
Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from...
by Charles M. Robinson III
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Great Plains cover the central two-thirds of the United States, and during the nineteenth century were home to some of the largest and most powerful Indian tribes on the continent. The conflict between those tribes and the newcomers from the Old World lasted about one hundred and fifty years,...
by Charles A. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Since his death along the bluffs overlooking the Little Bighorn River, in Montana, on June 25, 1876, over five hundred books have been written about the life and career of George Armstrong Custer. The earliest works portrayed Custer as a romantic, knightly figure, a paragon of virtue and...
I Freed Myself
African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves....
Law & Disorder
The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high....
Black Elk Speaks
The Complete Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing visions of the unity of humanity...
by James N. Leiker, Ramon Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers....
Antebellum Women
Private, Public, Partisan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question...
by Ruth Painter Randall
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
More fascinating than fiction, this is the moving story of the most misunderstood woman in American history…
The truth about Mary Lincoln has for nearly a century been hidden under a mountain of myth.
They said Lincoln really loved Ann Rutledge. That he had tried to avoid marriage...
Ghosts of the Confederacy
Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1987
After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals...
A History of England
Period III – Constitutional Monarchy from 1689-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Before the Crown was absolutely offered to William, the Convention was eager to reform a number of the most prominent abuses of the last reign. It was shown by the wiser leaders among them that such reforms would entail a mass of legislation which, to be done well, must occupy several years. It was...
by J. Ross Browne
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Browne takes us on a journey through the new territory during the latter part of the civil war when settlers were having some of the worst troubles with the Apache nation and troops were busy in the east. Taken from the original serialization in 1864 and 65, Browne introduces the old west through...
Apache Warrior vs US Cavalryman
1846–86
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
From the 1840s onward, United States military forces clashed with the Apache, a group of Native American peoples associated with the southwestern part of North America. US territorial expansion and conflict – first with Mexico and then during the Civil War – led to an escalation of hostilities...
The Life of Ten Bears
Comanche Historical Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph “Joe A” Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bears’s life (ca. 1790–1872) are widely known, including several versions of how the toddler Ten Bears survived the massacre...