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Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
- Author: Stephen COLERIDGE
- Genre: Animals / Medical / Modern (19th C)
Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological or pathological research. While opposition to the use of living animals for experimentation is most often...
The Elements of Geology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Geology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: Education / Science / Modern (19th C)
Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1846 presents an introduction to geology. The information, albeit not current, is still...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise of Young Ireland. Next we join the crowds in 1851 at the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, of...
The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story - Undefined
The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit recounting the events in countless books. One such seminal battle was that of the USS Monitor versus the USS...
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush - Susanna Moodie
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush - Susanna Moodie
- Author: Susanna Moodie
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Belleville in 1840, which she referred to as "the clearings". Here she described urban life, including religion, art, and...
Queen Victoria - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
Queen Victoria - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Author: Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Lytton Stracheyβs first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the...
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
- Author: Chester D. BERRY
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been released, and President Lincoln had just been assassinated. The steamship 'Sultana' left New Orleans on April 21st,...
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales...
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences - Sir John BARROW
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences - Sir John BARROW
- Author: Sir John BARROW
- Genre: True Crime / Modern (19th C)
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. On 4 April 1789, after five months in Tahiti, the Bounty set sail with its...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion - Sir Joseph POPE
Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion - Sir Joseph POPE
- Author: Sir Joseph POPE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. It was written by the man who served as Macdonald's private secretary from 1882 to 1891. - Summary by TriciaG...
The Future of the American Negro - Booker T. Washington
The Future of the American Negro - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The history of African American enslavement, freedom from slavery, and the need for education as a prerequisite for success. - Summary by kirk202...
The City That Was - Stephen SMITH
The City That Was - Stephen SMITH
- Author: Stephen SMITH
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Modern (19th C)
This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town of the world and the sanitary challenges that each encountered. Stephen Smith (1823-1922) was an American...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 27 - The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 - Archibald MACMECHAN
Chronicles of Canada Volume 27 - The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 - Archibald MACMECHAN
- Author: Archibald MACMECHAN
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
In the 1830's, Canada was a ideologically divided country. Political upheaval and even riots occurred over Canada's future. Would it remain a subsidiary of England? Would it form its own republic, or even merge with the United States? This work...
Great Chicago Fire - Charles Cole HINE
Great Chicago Fire - Charles Cole HINE
- Author: Charles Cole HINE
- Genre: Single author / Modern (19th C)
Historical information relating the nature, extent, and consequences of The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the insurance losses, and the relief costs. A brief interlude of comic relief is inserted midway in the form of a poem regarding the event.. -...
A Voice From Harper's Ferry - Osborne Perry ANDERSON
A Voice From Harper's Ferry - Osborne Perry ANDERSON
- Author: Osborne Perry ANDERSON
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A Voice from Harper's Ferry is the abolitionist testament of Osborne Perry Anderson, the only surviving black participant in the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry organized by John Brown. The book details the motivations and preparations for the raid, the...
The Precipice - Elia Wilkinson PEATTIE
The Precipice - Elia Wilkinson PEATTIE
- Author: Elia Wilkinson PEATTIE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Wounded Knee massacre, capital punishment, and the like. The Precipice is partially based on the life of her...
The Secret of Charlotte BrontΓ« - Frederika Richardson MACDONALD
The Secret of Charlotte BrontΓ« - Frederika Richardson MACDONALD
- Author: Frederika Richardson MACDONALD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Modern (19th C)
Twenty years ago, now, I attempted (but was not especially successful in the task) to establish upon the personal knowledge that my own residence as a pupil in the historical Pensionnat in the Rue d'Isabelle, at Bruxelles gave me of the facts of...
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786 β March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet βKing of the Wild Frontier.β He represented...
President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation - Henry Watson WILBUR
President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation - Henry Watson WILBUR
- Author: Henry Watson WILBUR
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude toward slavery and emancipation. (Summary by Guero)...
Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter - Sir Grafton Elliot SMITH
Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter - Sir Grafton Elliot SMITH
- Author: Sir Grafton Elliot SMITH
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Other religions
(From the Introduction) βNever before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr. Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. It gives us a new revelation of the...
Three Accounts of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
Three Accounts of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
- Author: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial'. The...
California Sketches New And Old - Oscar Penn FITZGERALD
California Sketches New And Old - Oscar Penn FITZGERALD
- Author: Oscar Penn FITZGERALD
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in Californiaβs early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps, lost clergymen, freed slaves, Northern sympathizers, Southern sympathizers, soldiersβ¦. Oscar Penn Fitzgerald...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North - Stephen Leacock
Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Exploration
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage, focusing on Samuel Hearne, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and Sir John Franklin. (Summary by...
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b - Jefferson DAVIS
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b - Jefferson DAVIS
- Author: Jefferson DAVIS
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of...
The Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt
The Naval War of 1812 - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
Somewhat detailed history of naval engagements between the United States and England during the War of 1812, from a decidely American perspective. Completed by the author as a young man at age 24. After 120 years, it remains a standard study of the...
The Underground Railroad, Part 4 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 4 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
"The work is intensely interesting. Many of the narratives thrill the reader through and through. Some of them awaken an indignation, a horror, or a sense of humiliation and shame that makes the blood curdle or the cheek flush, or the breathing...
Causes Of The American Civil War: Secession Statements Of Five Confederate States (South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi) - Various
Causes Of The American Civil War: Secession Statements Of Five Confederate States (South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies explaining why they were attempting to leave. Here are the statements, published in 1860 and 1861, of South...
The South American Republics, Part I - Thomas Cleland DAWSON
The South American Republics, Part I - Thomas Cleland DAWSON
- Author: Thomas Cleland DAWSON
- Genre: Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?" Possibly the events recounted in the following pages may help the reader to answer this for himself. I hope that he...
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Benjamin Randell HARRIS
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Benjamin Randell HARRIS
- Author: Benjamin Randell HARRIS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. ( Summary by Graham Keeling)...
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War - Eugenia Dunlap POTTS
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War - Eugenia Dunlap POTTS
- Author: Eugenia Dunlap POTTS
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (19th C)
While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An interesting view from a southern lady on what caused the war and why the south was the underdog. (Summary by FNH)...
The Art Of Cookery Made Plain And Easy - Hannah GLASSE
The Art Of Cookery Made Plain And Easy - Hannah GLASSE
- Author: Hannah GLASSE
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Although this recording has been made using the 1784 version, the original book of The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy was first published by subscription in 1747 by Hannah Glasse and was a compilation of the recipes typical for British meals...
Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War - Various
Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Modern (19th C)
This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, when the wounds to North and South were still fresh, and when no event more cataclysmic had struck the Republic...
Campaigning With Grant - Horace PORTER
Campaigning With Grant - Horace PORTER
- Author: Horace PORTER
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armies of the North. This lively 1897 memoir was written from the extensive notes he took during that time. It is...
The Exiles of Florida - Joshua GIDDINGS
The Exiles of Florida - Joshua GIDDINGS
- Author: Joshua GIDDINGS
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
βThe Author of the following work has endeavored to give a faithful record of β¦ the Exiles of Florida. Torn from their native land, their friends and homes, they were sold in the markets of Carolina and Georgia. Feeling the hand of oppression...
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses - Abraham Lincoln
- Author: Abraham Lincoln
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. His second inaugural, given just weeks before his assassination, was also delivered on March 4th but four years...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways - Oscar D. SKELTON
Chronicles of Canada Volume 32 - The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways - Oscar D. SKELTON
- Author: Oscar D. SKELTON
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Transportation
When the pace of railroad construction slackened in 1914, Canada had achieved a remarkable position in the railway world. Only five other countriesβthe United States, Russia, Germany, India, and, by a small margin, Franceβpossessed a greater...
The South American Republics, Part II - Thomas Cleland DAWSON
The South American Republics, Part II - Thomas Cleland DAWSON
- Author: Thomas Cleland DAWSON
- Genre: Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, and enslavement of the prosperous and civilised millions who inhabited the Pacific coast of South America. It...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 21 - The Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba - Louis Aubrey WOOD
Chronicles of Canada Volume 21 - The Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba - Louis Aubrey WOOD
- Author: Louis Aubrey WOOD
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
This, volume 21 of the Chronicles of Canada series, describes the settlement of the Red River Colony by Lord Selkirk, and the struggles it had against the North-West Company. The fledgling settlement eventually became the city of Manitoba. - Summary...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 26 - The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Joseph Howe - William Lawson GRANT
Chronicles of Canada Volume 26 - The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Joseph Howe - William Lawson GRANT
- Author: William Lawson GRANT
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Joseph Howe (1804-1873) was one of Nova Scotia's greatest and best-loved politicians. He was instrumental in helping Nova Scotia become the first British colony to win responsible government in 1848. A Liberal, he fought against Canadian...
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a - Jefferson DAVIS
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a - Jefferson DAVIS
- Author: Jefferson DAVIS
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (19th C)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of...