19Th Century category: 5646 books
by T Addison Richards
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
A trip along the Juniata in mostly rural Pennsylvania during the mid nineteenth century, prior to the American Civil War. Digitally restored illustrations.
The Rise of Multicultural America
Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments....
by David S. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2005
From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the...
Baking Powder Wars
The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's...
The News from Lone Rock
Observations and Witticisms of a Small-Town Newsman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2016
At the turn of the twentieth century, the bustling railroad town of Lone Rock, Wisconsin, was home to about a thousand residents, and Freeland Dexter seemed to know the business of every single one. Dexter reported all the news from Lone Rock—from the significant to the trivial, the tragic to the...
What Nostalgia Was
War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.
What Nostalgia Was unearths...
Massacre
The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
From a pre-eminent Yale historian comes the first popular history of the 1871 Paris Commune, a seminal episode in modern European history.
The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century--before...
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
Essays in Relation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the...
Jack the Ripper
The Murders, the Mystery, the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Over a century ago terror stalked the streets of Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper's brutal campaign of murder panicked Victorian London at the time, but his legacy reaches out to the present day. If anything the story of Jack is now more confusing, obscure and mysterious than ever. With each passing generation,...
Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women
Virtue and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Over the course of the eighteenth century increasing numbers of women went into print,...
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware
Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of nineteenth-century Delaware son, Brig. Gen. Henry Lockwood. Excerpt for a leave of absence to fight as a Union general during the Civil War,...
by John E. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in Washington, DC, and of the black people...
A House Full of Females
Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History,and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination.
A...
Mere Equals
The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new educational opportunities made sense of their individual and social identities in an American nation marked by stark political inequality between the sexes. McMahon's archival research into...