19Th Century category: 5646 books
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860
Reading the Stranger
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how, in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and...
The Heathen School
A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award
The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos.
Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider...
Sweet Freedom's Plains
African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring,...
American Massacre
The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible...
Uncle Tom's Story of His Life
An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version. The autobiography traces Henson's life from his birth into slavery in Maryland in 1789; his escape to Canada in 1830;...
by Johnson, Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
The summer of 1889 will ever be memorable for its appalling disasters by flood and flame. In that period fell the heaviest blow of the nineteenth century—a blow scarcely paralleled in the histories of civilized lands. Central Pennsylvania, a center of industry, thrift and comfort, was desolated...
by E W Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Straw Bonnets were big business in Southeastern Massachusetts during the Mid Nineteenth Century. This paper describes the business and a tour through the Union Works in Foxborough Massachusetts during the 1860's. The union works was once the worlds largest manufacturer of Straw Bonnets and Hats.
by Lewis L. Gould
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Sportsman. Naturalist. Warrior. President. There are so many sides to Theodore Roosevelt that it is easy to overlook one of his most enduring contributions to American public life: the use of fame to fuel his political career. In this concisely written, enlightening book, presidential historian Lewis...
by Frederick Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining of subject and...
Two Years Before the Mast
A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when...
True Story Of Kill Or Be Killed In The Real Old West
Recollections And Personal Photos Of Gunfighter And Lawman Frank Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Old West Gunfighter’s Forgotten Memoir Found. Reveals True Story of Kill Or Be Killed Shootouts In The Real Wild West. Recently discovered memoir by one of the Old West's most feared (but virtually unknown today) gunfighter's and lawmen puts you behind a pair of Colt .45 six-guns and immerses you in...
by T.C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
In 1763, by the Peace of Paris, England won a position of unapproached supremacy in colonial possessions and in naval strength. The entire North American continent east of the Mississippi River was now under the British flag, and four West India sugar islands were added to those already in English...
Essential Documents of American History, Volume I
From Colonial Times to the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation as well as presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and...
Liberty and Freedom
A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core...