19Th Century category: 5646 books
Angel of Vengeance
The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. "Revenge!," she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of...
by Work Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This book contains the complete collection of all 26 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Tennessee at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life...
by Work Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This book contains the complete collection of all 176 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in North Carolina at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave,...
by Work Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This book contains the complete collection of all 14 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Virginia at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life...
by Work Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book contains the complete collection of all 716 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Arkansas at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave,...
by Work Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book contains the complete collection of all 305 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Texas at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life...
by Work Projects Administration
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This book contains the complete collection of all 82 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Missouri at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life...
With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other
The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine Henri Jomini's Summary of the Art of War. As Carol Reardon shows,...
Populist Cartoons
An Illustrated History of the Third-Party Movement of the 1890s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This extensive and rich treasure trove of cartoons from Populist newspapers of the 1890s tells the story of one of the most successful third-party movements in American history. The arguments made in these illustrations resonated with late nineteenth-century readers, as evidenced by the continued use...
Red Bird, Red Power
The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential—and controversial—American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice...
Land Too Good for Indians
Northern Indian Removal
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories...
by Matthew Mason
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in...
The Politics of Black Citizenship
Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics—it was an effort that sought to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship...
Domesticating Slavery
The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning...