The Economist

If 19th-century plutocrats are dinosaurs, we’re now in Jurassic Park, writes Richard White

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...
Yahoo

What America’s divided and tumultuous politics of the late-19th century can teach us

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can today's divided America learn something from the divisions of the past? zimmytws, iStock/Getty Images Plus People trying to ...

A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors

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insider.si.edu

The Edinburgh companion to nineteenth-century American letters and letter-writing / edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers

Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...
insider.si.edu

At home in nineteenth-century America : a documentary history / Amy G. Richter

Introduction: At home in nineteenth-century America -- The emergence of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal : Excerpt from Henry Lee and Mary Lee, Letters and journals: with other family letters, ...
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Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the American South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images ...
The Boston Globe

The most-photographed person in 19th-century America knew the power of being seen

HARTFORD — Frederick Douglass, the great American intellectual, activist, and abolitionist of the 19th century, had a clairvoyance about the power of images. He sat for more than 160 photo portraits, ...

Women and the Myth of the American West

The frontier offered opportunities for land ownership and artistic inspiration—but life there wasn’t without struggle ...
Barron's

Selection of 19th-Century American Art, Including Many Hudson River School Artists, Heads to Auction

An assortment of notable 19th-century American art, headlined by mainstays of the Hudson River School, will go under the hammer live on Jan. 18 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center in New York City. The ...
Connecticut Post

What America’s divided and tumultuous politics of the late-19th century can teach us

(THE CONVERSATION) People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the ...