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History, Am.: 19th C.

From Charity to Social Work

Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession

Author: Elizabeth N. Agnew
Pub Date: January 2004

Examination of the development of modern social work from its roots in late 19th Century charity through the 1920’s, focusing on the life and leadership of Mary E. Richmond. Highlights the important role of charity organization philosophy in the transformation from voluntary charity to professional social work. learn more...

High Mountains Rising

Appalachia in Time and Place

Author: Edited by Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen
Pub Date: 2004

A collection of 14 original essays covering the major issues in Appalachian history and culture learn more...

His Brother's Blood

Speeches and Writings, 1838-64

Author: Owen Lovejoy
Pub Date: August 2004

A history of Owen Lovejoy’s religious and political participation in the antislavery movment from 1838 to 1864 learn more...

Radical Origins

Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors

Author: Val D. Rust
Pub Date: June 2004

The genological beginings of the Mormon religion from the radical Protestant Reformation movement in New England learn more...

The Road to Seneca Falls

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention

Author: Judith Wellman
Pub Date: 2004

An account of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the beginning of the U.S. women’s rights movement learn more...

Southern Discomfort

Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s

Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Pub Date: Cloth: 2001; Paper: 2004

A historical examination of multiracial women’s activism in the cigar factories of Tampa Florida learn more...

After the Strike

A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman

Author: Susan Eleanor Hirsch
Pub Date: April 2003

Exploring the effect of race, gender, and nationality in the long struggle for economic justice by men and women of the Pullman Company learn more...

All Abraham's Children

Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage

Author: Armand L. Mauss
Pub Date: April 2003

Example of Mormon beliefs and behavior towards minorities learn more...

American Datelines

Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present

Author: Edited by Ed Cray, Jonathan Kotler, and Miles Beller
Pub Date: 2003

A vivid eyewitness account of the events--war, politics, the arts, sports, and human interest--that have most influenced American political and popular culture during the last three centuries learn more...

The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890

Author: George Rogers Taylor and Irene D. Neu
Pub Date: 2003

The emergence of railroads during the Civil War, their expansion westward, the adoption of uniform rail gauges, and the first key consolidations in the industry. learn more...