19th century

Examines the theme, characters, plot, style, and technique of more than one hundred nineteenth and twentieth-century short stories by prominent authors from around the world. This volume includes titles covering A-Cri.

Focuses on ten crucial days in the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Describes, in text and photographic illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.

Colorful illustrations describe what life would be like as a coal miner in nineteenth-century England.

Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict life and events during the four years of the Civil War.

Tells the stories of American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who spent time in Paris between 1830 and 1900, pursuing knowledge that would help them excel in their careers, including Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, author James Fenimore Cooper, pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk, medical student Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many others.

Examines the relationship between American history and literature between 1870 and 1920, presenting alphabetized articles on topics such as pragmatism, theater, World War I, Wounded Knee, and suffrage. This volume covers Pr-Y.

Examines the relationship between American history and literature between 1820 and 1870, presenting alphabetized articles on topics such as Romanticism, satire, and the Trail of Tears. This volume covers R-Y.

Examines the relationship between American history and literature between 1870 and 1920, presenting alphabetized articles on topics such as Haymarket Square, humor, the Ku Klux Klan, philosophy, and poverty. This volume covers H-Po.