History - United States - 19th Century

From New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes Ladies of Liberty a follow up to Founding Mothers in which she examines the lives and times of the women who have helped shape America.In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers,...

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United StatesIn publishing at this late period the journal of my voyage to the United States, along with General Lafayette, in 1824 and 1825, I...

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 2 (of 2) - Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United StatesBe it remembered, That on the sixth day of November, in the fifty-fourth year of the independence of the United States of America, A....

"[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published 'last seen' advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage...a vital work of recovery." --Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife Drawing from...

"[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published 'last seen' advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage...a vital work of recovery." --Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife Drawing from...

At the heart of this landmark collection of essays rests a single question: What impact, good or bad, immediate or long-range, did Lewis and Clark's journey have on the Indians whose homelands they traversed? The nine writers in this volume each provide their own...

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Arizona and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century. The heliograph network...

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a...

One historian's journey to find the end of the Civil War--and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societies struggle to draw the line between war and peace LOS ANGELES TIMES "TOP TEN BOOKS TO READ...

Follow Lincoln's day-by-day path from peacemaker to war leader as the Union edges toward Civil War. The months after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, between March 4 and May 3, 1861, mark one of the most significant periods in American history. Antagonism between the...

In eighteenth-century America, genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties--it was a powerful force that shaped society. Lineage delves into an era where individuals, families, and institutions meticulously documented their connections. Whether driven by personal passion or mandated by churches, local...

A complicated friendship blooms during a fated meeting in northern Michigan between two nineteenth-century women writers. In the mid-1830s, the author Anna Brownell Jameson was called from Britain to Canada to see her husband. Before she returned back home, she embarked on a trip...

Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain ThemApelles, the great artist, traveled all over Greece for years, studying the fairest points of beautiful women, getting here an eye, there a forehead, and there a...

Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2) - Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain ThemTHE felicity of F. Oppers caricatures is marvelous. His drawings for the Dinkelspiel stories, by George V. Hobart, in the New York Morning Journal have drawn to...

What Lizzie Borden Knew: The Murders on Second Street and the Verdict Nobody BelievedOn a sweltering Thursday morning in August 1892, two people were murdered inside a locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts. The killer left no witnesses, no confession, and almost no physical...

"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed, and absorbed." --Kevin Starr, historian, University of Southern California Around 200...

Forgotten History in the Tar Heel StateTake an adventure through ruins of ghost towns and lost communities in the Old North State. Explore isolated settlements like Lost Cove, hidden so deep in the mountains that no roads reach it. Ferry out to Portsmouth Island,...

A dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled...

Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history--Madame Restell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.​ An industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was...

The acclaimed and thrilling account of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the twelve-day chase for John Wilkes Booth, winner of the Edgar Award and adapted into an acclaimed Apple TV+ Series"A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln's killers that will mesmerize the reader from...