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

In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, an...

In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, an...

Confederate newspapers were beset by troubles: paper shortages, high ink prices, printers striking for higher pay, faulty telegraphic news service,...

Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critics mixed and complex role. ...

Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels,...

A unique collection revealing the experience of Jewish soldiers and civilians during the Civil War At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Un...

According to conventional interpretations, the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 destroyed a budding native capitalist economy on the peninsula ...

Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of ...

A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas JeffersonDuring the period covered by the 575 documents in this volume, Jefferson advise...

The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and ...

A deadly and expensive war within a war was waged behind the lines (and often out of the major headlines) in western Kentucky. In 1862, the region ...

Personalities. Characters. History. John C. Waugh, the author of the popular and award-winning The Class of 1846, presents forty of the most memora...

Nancy Christie innovatively and significantly transforms the writing of Quebec history between 1763 and 1837 by locating Quebec within new British ...

Surprisingly little has been written about the important Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks. The bloody two-day affair (May 31-June 1, 1862), fought o...

It was front-page news throughout the country - the largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held. [It] will be talked about and wr...

They have done all that can be expected of them; we are outnumbered and outflanked, so described Lt. Col. Benjamin Ford of the desperate situation ...

After taking Forts Henry and Donelson, the Union army prepared to try and take the vital rail hub of Corinth, Mississippi. To facilitate this, Majo...

The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi stands as the prime example of how the Civil W...

About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. A...

In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black womenCelia Grayson, age twenty-two, and Eliza Grayson, age twentyescaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls househ...

Der in Thüringen wirkende Arzt Christoph von Hellwig (16631721) hat zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts ein inhaltlich und zahlenmäßig schwer überschaub...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of ...