19th century

Discusses the immigration of the Irish to America following the Great Potato famine.

Looks at the British immigration to the United States, discussing how they arrived, where they lived, what jobs were available and more.

Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States was meant to reach from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Readers discover how this goal was achieved as they explore this pivotal period in American history. Historical images allow readers to place themselves on a wagon train or a railroad.

A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian. We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers--how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.

In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba.

Explores the history and the criminal case of Jesse Pomeroy, a child himself, and a child serial killer in Boston in the late nineteenth century.

Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Ars?ne Lupin--but Ars?ne's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.

In March 1871 Irene's family moves from London to Evreux in Normandy, but after a strange woman warns her that her mother is in danger, Irene calls upon her friends Ars?ne Lupin and Sherlock Holmes for help and soon the three young detectives are caught up in the search for an ancient relic said to be in a secret crypt beneath the streets of Paris--a Paris which is torn apart by war and currently ruled by the Commune.

Contains illustrations and descriptions of various aspects of Victorian life, including homes, different rooms, fashions, games and toys, celebrations, transportation, and more.