Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre's founding century
With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It's a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten
...Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority riled ministers, journalists,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From 1848 to 1881, a small utopian colony in upstate New York, the Oneida Community, was known for its shocking sexual practices, from open marriage and free love to the sexual training of young boys by older women. And in 1881, a one-time member of the Oneida Community, Charles Julius Guiteau, assassinated President James Garfield in a brutal crime that shook America to its core. This is the first book to weave together these explosive stories in...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this...
Author
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetary movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran...
Author
Series
Alexandria Archaeology Publications volume no. 5
Publisher
Office of Historic Alexandria
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"A literary, historical exploration about the way in which our industrialized lives have made us sick--from diarist Alice James and the 19th century neuraesthenics to current day chronic and stress-related illnesses--that seeks to answer the question who gets sick, and why?"--
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This biographical study of three late nineteenth-century French writers looks at how transgender identities were expressed and understood before the modern category of transgender existed. At once construed as oddities and celebrated for their accomplishments, archaeologist and explorer Jane Dieulafoy (1851-1916), art critic Marc de Montifaud (1845-1912), and novelist and playwright Rachilde (1860-1953) defied the available terms for women who challenged...
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, LTD
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With authority, insight and passion, The Beloved Vision links the music history of this singular epoch to ideas that lie behind Romanticism in all its manifestations. In this complete, entertaining, and singularly readable account, we come to understand the entire phase in music history that has become mainstay of the twentieth-and twenty-first-century concern and operatic repertoire. We also come to understand Beethoven, Mahler, Schubert, Chopin,...
13) Windsong Manor
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The London Countryside, 1820. Eleanora Coventry comes from a life of title and privilege, but even that isn't enough to prevent her from being wed at sixteen to a controlling and dismissive husband. So when she finds herself a widow at only twenty-six, the idea of choosing her own path forward both thrills and terrifies her. She knows how to be a daughter and a wife, but she has no idea how to be Eleanora. She moves her son and daughter to her late...
Author
Series
Alexandria papers in urban archaeology. Museum volume no. 1
Publisher
Alexandria Urban Archaeology Program
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs in home heating markets used to convince consumers that their product designs and fuel choices were superior, and how elite, middle-class, and poor Americans...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815 Olivia Wilde has resigned herself to never finding a love match. Her father has insisted she marry a man with a title, if only to increase his own standing and reputation in society. But the men her father deems acceptable are, at best, boring and uninspiring, and at worse, are as brutish as her father, and are only looking to increase their own diminishing coffers. With her future looking dismal, Olivia decides to enjoy the last few...
Author
Series
Yale historical publications. Miscellany volume 123
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
In Marina
Didn't find what you need? Items that were published more than six months ago and which are not owned by AACPL can be requested from other Marina libraries in Maryland.
Didn't find a newly published title?
Looking for a title that was published in the past six months? You can submit a purchase suggestion. Please do not submit purchase suggestions for titles that have not yet been published. Submit Request