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History, Am.: 19th C.



link to catalog page MATHES, The Standing Bear Controversy

The Standing Bear Controversy

Prelude to Indian Reform

Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt
Pub Date: September 2003

The first full length study of the Standing Bear trial and its concequences on the larger American and Native American societies: the rise of the organized humanitarian reform movement, changes in the administration of Indian affairs, and the passage of the General Allotment Act of 1887.   learn more...

link to catalog page CHA-JUA, America's First Black Town

America's First Black Town

Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

Author: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

The courageous story of the first all-Black free town in the United States   learn more...

link to catalog page KECKLEY, Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Pub Date: 2002

A slave, friend and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln, and a proprietor with more than twenty employees of her own tells her tale   learn more...

link to catalog page KEATING, Building Chicago

Building Chicago

Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis

Author: Ann Durkin Keating
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page SLOBIN, Chosen Voices

Chosen Voices

The Story of the American Cantorate

Author: Mark Slobin
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

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link to catalog page HARTNETT, Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America Author: Stephen John Hartnett
Pub Date: April 2002

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link to catalog page BERWANGER, The Frontier against Slavery

The Frontier against Slavery

Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy

Author: Eugene H. Berwanger
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page GORDON, Heroes of Their Own Lives

Heroes of Their Own Lives

The Politics and History of Family Violence--Boston, 1880-1960

Author: Linda Gordon
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page SAVITT, Medicine and Slavery

Medicine and Slavery

The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia

Author: Todd L. Savitt
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page FRANKLIN, The Militant South, 1800-1861 Author: John Hope Franklin
Pub Date: 2002

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