Nineteenth Century Life Chapters

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.

Gen. Jos' de Urrea tells James Fannin and his men they can surrender at Goliad without retribution. Santa Anna orders them executed. The Goliad massac...

General "Chinese" Gordon offers The Mahdi gifts that he rejects, and then The Mahdi lays siege to Khartoum and beheads Gordon.

South Carolina History Standard 8-5.4 Summarize the policies and actions of South Carolina's political leadership implementing discriminatory laws tha...

When Abe Lincoln was eight years old, he moved with his family to a settlement in Indiana. It was there that he lost his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, ...

The gunfight on Fremont Street does not settle matters between the two sides, and more shootings and killings occur.

During the afternoon of October 26th, 1881, the famous gunfight occurs in Tombstone between the lawmen and the Cowboys.

Norman dies before he can marry Beatrix.

Florie's marriage goes downhill, with money problems and abuse that James' addiction causes.

Learn about mid-19th century New York fashion, places, people and facts.

HMSResolute, a British Navy ship, becomes trapped in the Arctic ice. The crew abandons the ship but a whaler later finds it.

People save possessions by burying them in the sand before they flee the October 1871 fires in Holland, Michigan.

Edgardo, kidnapped from his Jewish family, becomes a well-educated, world-famous priest who credits the servant girl for saving him, and his Inquisito...

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