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.
From the age of 5 to 15, Beatrix spends summers in Scotland where she falls in love with nature.
Potter spends summers in the Lake District and uses its surroundings in The Talk of Peter Rabbit.
While running for office, many candidates suffer ridicule in local and national media outlets.
In order to survive, starving men of the whaleship Essex resort to cannabilism, the very thing which kept them from seeking refuge at islands much-clo...
One theory, about the Whitechapel-area muders, suggests that Prince Albert Victor is Jack the Ripper.
General Jackson, a strong Confederate commander, weeps over the death of a child and for his soldiers.
Tensions increase in Texas between Anglos, Mexicans and Tejanos over culture, slavery and the economy.
President Lincoln relieves General Hooker of command because of his loss at Chancellorsville.
Texas defenders, including James Bowie and William Travis, hold the Alamo against Santa Anna's troops. Travis pleads for more soldiers.
Mexican troops kill the Alamo defenders. Susanna Dickinson and Santa Anna both provide witness accounts.
Mary Kelly supposedly tries to blackmail the royal family with her information about Prince Eddy's illegitimate child.
Native Americans inhabit the great "wilderness," nearly the entire western part of the US.
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