19th Century American History

 

19th Century USA
Antebellum Gilded Age  Old West	Reconstruction Turn of the Century

Boss Tweed's New York
by Seymour J. Mandelbaum
(Paperback -- 1990)

Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
by Andrew Gyory
(Paperback -- November )

Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark
by William Clark, et al
Listed under Lewis & Clark

Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
by Ronald C., Jr. White
Listed under Lincoln
 

	The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand (Hardcover -- May )

	What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States by James F. Simon (Hardcover -- March )

John Adams
by David McCullough
Listed under John Adams

Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
by Gary Kinder
Listed under Shipwrecks

The Johnstown Flood
by David McCullough
Listed under Pennsylvania History
 

	Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, Richard D. Heffner (Editor) (Mass Market Paperback -- September 5, )

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Listed under American Railroads

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
by Edward Dolnick
Listed under John Wesley Powell

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
by David McCullough
Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography
Listed under Theodore Roosevelt

Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
by Edward Steers Jr.
Listed under Lincoln Assassination

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Listed under Whaling
 

	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs, et al (Paperback -- March 10, )

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Listed under Custer

Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers
by Robert Marshall Utley
Listed under Texas Rangers

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
by Jacqueline L. Tobin, et al
Hidden in Plain View is a multilayered and unique piece of scholarship, oral history, and cultural exploration that reveals slaves as deliberate agents in their own quest for freedom even as it shows that history can sometimes be found where you least expect it...
Listed under Slavery
 

	Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West by Larry McMurtry (Hardcover -- November 9, )

	On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See (Paperback -- September )

	A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Trans Atlantic Cable by John Steele Gordon (Hardcover -- June )

Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend
by Casey Tefertiller
Listed under Wyatt Earp
 

	Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915 (The Everyday Life in America Series, Vol. 4) by Thomas J. Schlereth (Paperback -- July 1992)

The Robber Barons (Harvest Book)
by Matthew Josephson
(Paperback -- June 1962)

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon
(Paperback -- May 1992)

Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined
by Richard Allan, Jr Fox, W. Raymond Wood
Listed under Custer
 

Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time by Robert Vincent Remini Hardcover from W.W. Norton & Company

The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun by Merrill D. Peterson Paperback from Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

Daniel Webster, the Completest Man by Kenneth E. Shewmaker et al. Paperback from Dartmouth College 1993

Daniel Webster, Defender of the Union (Sowers Series)
by Robert A. Allen
Paperback from Mott Media
1989
 

The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster Paperback from Beard Books

Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
by Ivan Musicant
Listed under The Spanish-American War
 

	Families of Fortune: Life in the Gilded Age by Alexis Gregory, John Kenneth Galbraith (Paperback -- September )

The Spanish War: An American Epic--1898
by George J. A. O'Toole
Listed under The Spanish-American War

The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
by Sven Beckert
(Hardcover -- April )

Fifth Avenue: The Best Address
by Jerry E. Patterson
(Hardcover -- May )
 

	Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line by Scott Molloy (Hardcover -- January )

Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-Of-The-Century Brooklyn
by Regina Morantz-Sanchez
(Paperback -- October )

The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
by Thomas Beer
(Paperback -- November )

Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail
by Theodore Roosevelt, Frederic Remington (Illustrator)
Listed under Theodore Roosevelt

Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910
by Jan Cigliano
Listed under Ohio History

The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic
by David W. Shaw
Listed under Shipwrecks

Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by David O. Stowell
(Hardcover -- July )

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Listed under Lewis & Clark

The Websters: Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836-1853
by Frances Marvin Smith Webster, Van R. Baker (Editor)
Book Description: When Lucien Webster, West Point graduate and artilleryman, met Frances Smith, granddaughter of a Connecticut Revolutionary War hero, in Florida, neither could anticipate how exciting and stressful their lives would be over the next 17 years. 

The couple was barely married before being separated by orders that sent Lucien Þrst to south Florida, where he established a post on the site of present-day Miami, and then to North Carolina, where he participated in the army’s sad duty of driving the Cherokee Indians onto their “trail of tears.â€� When finally reunited, the newlyweds were posted to duty in Maine for seven years and then Pensacola Bay for a few months while Lucien’s unit prepared for the imminent war with Mexico. For the next two years Frances and Lucien’s letters were filled with the details of their lives. 

The Websters has the rare distinction of containing both sides of a correspondence between an “Old Armyâ€� officer and his socially prominent wife, one that reflects both their private lives and many of the public events of the times and that interweaves their responses to one another’s experiences. 
(Hardcover)

The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics
by Solon J. Buck
(Paperback -- December )
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