What made the 19th century an interesting but tumultuous time? What technological, cultural and social changes influenced life then? Explore those issues in this story collection.
In Illinois, married women have few rights; a husband can commit his wife to a mental institution against her will.
Though the President issues the proclamation, it is not a law and slaveholders in the South, who have left the Union, can (and do) ignore it.
Norman Warne is an editor who first helps Beatrix with her books, and then becomes her romantic partner.
The "Underground Railroad", a network of routes, safe houses, and people, helps many slaves escape.
With help from his future wife and friends, Fred escapes to the free state of New York and takes the name Frederick Douglass.
This map, from PBS' "American Experience," depicts the areas where whales were captured between 1790 and 1924. Data for the map was retrieved from a s...
Does Mary know that Booth, her son John, and others are meeting at her boardinghouse to plot the kidnapping of the president?
8-4.1 Importance of agriculture in antebellum South Carolina
Dwellings are destroyed to ensure that the homeless of Ireland have no place to go.
Many plead for mercy, but Mary Surratt and three other conspirators hang on July 7, 1865.
As Anna takes dictation, she and Dostoevsky fall in love and develop their personal relationship.
"Conductors" are people who lead the slaves to safety; some include runaway slaves such as Harriet Tubman.
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