19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Jean McClure Mudge (editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women’s rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he spoke about a spectrum...
by Katherine DuPre Lumpkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Although Angelina and Sarah Grimke have been regarded as equally gifted and involved abolitionists and nineteenth-century women's rights advocates, this first biography of Angelina clearly shows that she, indeed, was the outstanding leader, as her contemporaries recognized. Through the use of unpublished...
Black Walden
Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution...
The President Is a Sick Man
Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president’s...
Barnum
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
The first major biography of P.T. Barnum in a generation, a vivid account of the forefather of American entertainment.
P. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever seen: the cocreator of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the man who made worldwide sensations of Jumbo the Elephant,...
by B J Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
From the perspective of the mid nineteenth century a view of the battles on Lake Champlain and the New England Coast during the War of 1812.
by J S C Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
This series of articles first appeared beginning in December 1864, with the final article appearing in April 1867. In them Abbot gives us a victor's view of some of the battles and men that saved the Union. There are several articles on the battles on and along the Mississippi including Port Hudson...
The Deepest South
The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
During its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate in this odious commerce...
Life of the Marlows
A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). Violent, full of intrigue, with characters of amazing heroism and deplorable cowardice, their story was...
by W V Wells
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
A good description of a trip on the Rhody Carter out of Marblehead Massachusetts to the Grand Banks in search of Cod during the mid nineteenth century.
Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality
Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique...
by John McCorkle
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“This famous memoir by John McCorkle, is the best published account by a scout who “rode with Quantrill.” John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In 1854, after recently arriving from England, twenty-two-year-old Reuben Smith traveled west, eventually making his way to Kansas Territory. There he found himself in the midst of a bloody prelude to the Civil War, as Free Staters and defenders of slavery battled to stake their claim. The young Englishman...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This bundle book is a compilation of three of KidCaps top selling history books; it is the second in a three-part volume.
The first volume presents the following wars in an easy to understand format that kids love:
*The First World War
*The Second World War
*The Korean War