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July 13, 2026 (July 7, 2026)

Celebrating 250 Years in Books: 19th Century Edition

AMERICA250 american history Reading List
Together, We Make History. University of Illinois Press.

Join us in celebrating the United States from its beginnings
in the best way we know how — BOOKS!

We’re moving through the ages with some featured titles
from our American History, 19th Century list.

Becoming St. Louis
Family, Faith, and the Politics of Citizenship, 1820-1920
Author: Sharon Hartman Strom The Pioneer Boy, and How He Became President
Annotated Edition
Author: William M. Thayer, edited and with an introduction by Steven K. Rogstad

Slavery at Sea
Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
Author: Sowande' M. Mustakeem My Bondage and My Freedom
Author: Frederick Douglass

To Advance the Race
Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s
Author: Linda M. Perkins The Mark of Slavery
Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America
Author: Jenifer L. Barclay

Emma Goldman
A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901
Author: Emma Goldman Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Author: Richard L. Bushman

The Great Chicago Fire
Author: Ross Miller Widows and Orphans First
The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939
Author: S. J. Kleinberg

The American Myth of Success
From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale
Author: Richard Weiss Immigrant Minds, American Identities
Making the United States Home, 1870-1930
Author: Orm Ă–verland

Rough Justice
Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947
Author: Michael J. Pfeifer The War Of 1812
A Forgotten ConflictRevised edition
Author: Donald R. Hickey
Bicentennial Edition


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