Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

Theodore Parker was one of the most controversial theologians and social activists in pre-Civil War America. A vocal critic of traditional Christia...

Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation ‘...

Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domesti...

In this study the author singles out the ideas of K. S. Aksakov (1817-1860), philologist, poet, historian, and sometime dramatist, and places them ...

Some two centuries ago, during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, New England's merchants and traders found themselves frozen out of their trad...

A series of drawings of medieval buildings in Stamford, made in the 1730s by William Stukeley, provide important new evidence for the history of th...

How American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monu...

The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored ...

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been ...

Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their adaptations, and also a...

Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Br...

Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures by Joseph Acquisto examines the many ways in which the castaway, parti...