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In April 1849, seventy-six slaves - all household servants in Washington, D.C. - made a run for freedom on the schooner The Pearl. The escape was planned in part by Paul Jennings, a slave of Preside……続きを見る

The decision to emigrate has historically held differing promises and costs for women and for men. Exploring theories of difference in labor market participation, network formation and the immigrant……続きを見る

A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city. In the newest volume in the a……続きを見る

The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. In the final decades of the nineteenth c……続きを見る

In the tradition of his award-winning biographies, Meriwether Lewis and Fool’s Gold, acclaimed historian Richard Dillon recreates the life of one of frontier America’s most gifted lawmen, James B. H……続きを見る

David McMurtrie Gregg (April 10, 1833 August 7, 1916) was a prominent Union cavalry general in the Civil War who distinguished himself in the Seven Days Battles, expertly screening retreating Union……続きを見る

In 1898: The Birth of the American Century, David Traxel tells the story of a watershed year, a year of foreign conflict, extravagant adventure, and breakneck social change that forged a new America……続きを見る

An American Procession is a study, on the largest scale, of the major American writers at work during the historically and literarily crucial century that began in the early 1830s, when Ralph Waldo ……続きを見る

Typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, assembled by the Library of Congress Project, Work Projects Administration (WPA), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and fi……続きを見る

Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful accou……続きを見る

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in ……続きを見る

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In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thrivingーand largely lawlessーboomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of ……続きを見る

First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history – a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the idea……続きを見る

CONTENTS TESTIMONIALS NARRATIVE, &c. WHAT THE "TIMES" SAID OF THE SECESSION IN 1861 SECESSION CONDEMNED IN A SOUTHERN CONVENTION THE CONFEDERATE AND THE SCOTTISH CLERGY ON SLAVERY 続きを見る

During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, t……続きを見る

The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké The First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Childhood of Sar……続きを見る

It was the railway system which moulded the American hobo into the legendary figure he became, especially in the depression years, but surviving until today. His origins, however, go back to the ear……続きを見る

"I am not ambitious, I seek only to please for the present moment, leaving the glory of posthumous fame, to the thousand little celebrities of the day," writes Lizzie, one of the regular contributor……続きを見る

*Includes pictures of Anthony, Stanton, and other important people in their lives. *Includes Anthony's and Stanton's comments on social issues like education, employment, suffrage, abolition, aborti……続きを見る

Tracing the development of German socialism in Britain and on the continent in the mid-nineteenth century, this is the first substantial study to combine two very important aspects: an analysis of t……続きを見る

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil Warーa fascinating portrait of one of the most compelling politicians in American historyーa Revolutio……続きを見る

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. Fr……続きを見る

In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle o……続きを見る

The Gilded Age bon vivant who became America's unlikeliest chief executive-and who presided over a sweeping reform of the system that nurtured him Chester Alan Arthur never dreamed that one day he w……続きを見る

Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. I was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notab……続きを見る

With Porter in the Essex A Story of His Famous Cruise in Southern Waters during the War of 1812 This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I. Introducing Myself II. ……続きを見る

Journal of Voyages contains an account of the author Captain Jacob Dunham (born 27 April 1779 in Connecticut,USA) being twice captured by the English and once by Gibbs the Pirate; his narrow escape……続きを見る

The Sea Island Hurricanes tells of the destruction and relief efforts after the devastation of the Hurricanes of 1893 on the Sea Islands between Savannah and Charleston, on the Atlantic Coast of th……続きを見る

In this classic piece which was serialized in Harper's during the 1850's, David Hunter Strother, also known as Porte Crayon, travels his native state in the company of his cousins and his driver Mic……続きを見る