19th Century

In The Late Nineteenth Century, People Were Obsessed By One Of The Last Unmapped Areas Of The Globe: The North Pole. No One Knew What Existed Beyond The For...

Elizabeth R. Varon. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 435-487) And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

Ordeal by Fire blends the most up-to-date scholarship with interpretations based on decades of teaching, research, and writing, to tell an important story-...

Tobin Met Ozella Williams In The Old Market Building In Charleston, South Carolina, And Learned Of The Oral Tradition And Coded Quilts Used To Navigate Esca...

A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club.In the spring of 1862, many Americans still b...

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest an...

The American Republic, written in 1865, is a part of the Conservative Leadership Series, and proves to remain a cornerstone of American thinking, a great in...

William Baxter ; Introduction By William L. Shea. Originally Published: Cincinnati : Poe & Hitchcock, 1864.Categories: History United StatesState & ...

A Long Shadow is a fascinating narrative account of the fall of the Confederacy told from the perspective of Jefferson Davis, his official entourage, and h...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the ...

America, how well do you know your history? Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to d...

In Thomas Dixon's Novel That Became The Film The Birth Of A Nation, The Scalawag - A White Southerner Who Supported Congressional Reconstruction And The Rep...

This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's contribution to the nation's epic struggle during the Civil War." "From diari...

First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. Winning acclaim for its comprehensi...

Spanning the era from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to 1920, the entries of this reference were chosen with attention to the people, events, inventions, ...

The impact of the Civil War on Georgia was greater than any other event in the state’s history. Approximately eleven thousand Georgians were killed and t...

Schwantes gathers historical photos, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. ...

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad has operated for more than three decades as a tourist ride over the breathtaking Cumbres Pass, ten thousand feet ab...

Maude Travers gulped for air. Why had this man struck her? Why was she on this kitchen floor in this ramshackle tenement? Blinking hard she was instantly si...

At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nat...

Documents The 1810 To 1813 Expedition, Financed By Millionaire John Jacob Astor And Encouraged By Thomas Jefferson, To Establish Fort Astoria, A Trading Pos...