19th Century

This folk narrative by Carrie Young is a collection of essays that remininisce on her mother's North Dakota pioneering days.Book InformationISBN 9780877453291Author Carrie YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher...

With this seventh volume, The Papers of Andrew Jackson enters the heart of Jackson's career: his tumultuous two terms as president of the United States. The year 1829 began with Jackson fresh from a triumphant victory over incumbent John Quincy Adams in...

In 1891, a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: ""Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine...

The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real estate bubble, the Panic was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912777993Author Matthew AlgeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 208g

In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the "cultural fictions" that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire,...

This book shows how Social Darwinism permeated the public discourse of America's 'Gilded Age'.The years between 1870 and 1910 were filled with dramatic social, political and economic changes in the United States. In response, public discourse of the...

Notified of his nomination for a second term in June 1872, Ulysses S. Grant accepted, promising ""the same zeal and devotion to the good of the whole people for the future of my official life, as shown in the past."" Challenged by a coalition of...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. But increasingly during the contested politics of the early...

"The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America." -The Washington Post Five...

Aspirations of social mobility and anti-Catholic discrimination were the lifeblood of subversive opposition to British rule in Ireland during the mid-nineteenth century. Refugees of the Great Famine who congregated in ethnic enclaves in North America and...

Death by Fire and Ice tells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840. Built in 1835 by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Lexington left Manhattan bound for Stonington, Connecticut, at four o'clock in...

In the seven decades from its establishment in 1775 to the commercialization of the electric telegraph in 1844, the American postal system spurred a communications revolution no less far-reaching than the subsequent revolutions associated with the...

In a newly enlarged edition of this eye-opening book, David T. Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable...

"Driven Out" exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From...

In contrast to later imperial pursuits in Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, the early United States extended its boundaries through less sensational modes of territorialization: land deals, slavery expansion, treaty diplomacy, immigration and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809330911Author John F. MarszalekFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817350123Author Thomas KettellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams)...

The Federalist Frontier traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory—Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—from the nation’s first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the...

When readers see the names Mark Twain or Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original fake news writers in Nevada's early years. Frontier Fake News puts a spotlight on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646423743Author Steven K MadsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University Press

Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South. In sharp contrast to many long-standing presumptions about mistrust or animosity between these two...

Is drunkenness a defense for murder? In the early nineteenth century, the answer was a resounding no. Intoxication was considered voluntary, and thus provided no defense. Yet as the century progressed, American courts began to extend exculpatory value to...

In the midst of the United States' immense economic growth in the 1850s, Americans worried about whether the booming agricultural, industrial, and commercial expansion came at the price of cherished American values such as honesty, hard work, and...

What was life like for the young men who came of age in late-eighteenth-century New England? How did the American Revolution and its aftermath shape their outlook and experiences? This book offers a collective biography of the 204 members of the Harvard...

After the Revolutionary War ended, the new American nation grappled with a question about its identity: Were the states sovereign entities or subordinates to a powerful federal government? The War of 1812 brought this vexing issue into sharp relief, as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817309282Author Donna J. KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621906988Author Mark ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams) 152g

Although most Americans associate earthquakes with California, the tremors that shook the Mississippi valley in southeast Missouri from December 16, 1811, through February 7, 1812, are among the most violent quakes ever to hit the North American...

In his eighth and final annual message to Congress, Ulysses S. Grant reminded the nation that it was his fortune or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training? The electoral crisis that dominated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621906360Author Michael A LofaroFormat PaperbackImprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340133Author Rick BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 1034g

Heaven's Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War. Historians have long...

This book explores the life of Abraham Lincoln on the eve of his bicentennial. To fully understand and appreciate Abraham Lincoln's legacy, it is important to examine the society that influenced the life, character, and leadership of the man who would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197545997Author Assistant Professor Susan V SpellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press,...

In this innovative study of the relationship between popular print and popular attitudes toward the body, health, and disease in antebellum America, Thomas A. Horrocks focuses our attention on a publication long neglected by scholars - the almanac...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826221353Author Forrest NaborsFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams) 825g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913372746Author William L LofstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport MuseumWeight(grams) 367g

Saddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin' helpin' of tales of America's frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers,...