Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Republic by Plato
A digital version of The Republic, Plato's famous political dialogue. Includes a lengthy introduction by the translator, Benjamin Jowett, a nineteenth-century Oxford University scholar.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Within These Walls
Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Manifest Destiny
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students use nineteenth-century maps and art, and consider the roots of American exceptionalism.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Exploration Through the Ages
A history of the world from the perspective of those who sailed the seas in great waves of exploration, from ancient times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the explorers, their ships, the tools they navigated by, and their...
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: Birth of the u.s. Navy
A history of the United States Navy, from pre-Revolutionary times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the maritime commerce, wartime influence, and Congressional actions relating to the development of the Navy.
University of Richmond
American Panorama: Canals
Excellent resource maps the growth of canals and economic development in the nineteenth-century by presenting data about the commodities and products that moved across the canals and shows the spaces that canals connected.
Brown University
Brown University Library: Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
A digital archive of media portraying Giuseppe Garibaldi, a nineteenth-century Italian military and political leader and hero. Collection includes interactive and animated panoramic lecture, newspaper illustrations, and prints from the...
Other
New World Encyclopedia: Mexican War of Independence
Find out about the early nineteenth century armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish rule.
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State of Alaska: Department of Education: Alaska's Gold
Information, stories, historical images, and documents about the discovery of gold in Alaska in the late nineteenth century.
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Godmother of Thanksgiving: The Story of Sarah Josepha Hale [Pdf]
You may not have heard of Sarah Josepha Hale, but you are very familiar with her work. Learn about the remarkable nineteenth century New Hampshire woman who convinced a president to proclaim a national holiday - Thanksgiving. And that's...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Catharine Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher was a nineteenth century teacher and writer who promoted equal access to education for women.
Library of Congress
Loc: Home Sweet Home Life in 19th Century Ohio
This site uses historically significant documents to paint a picture of family life in 19th century Ohio. Music plays a large role in this picture.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Kevin Kenny, "Insiders & Outsiders in 19th Century American Immigration"
This article focuses on the history of who were the insiders (with rights) and the outsiders (without rights) in the early history of the US (prior to the 14th Ammendment. It was largely based on race not citizenship.
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virginia: Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has provided the full text of Paul (Pavel) Birukoff's book entitled "Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood."
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The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy
This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 1 Fantine
An HTML version of the first volume of Hugo's famous novel is available here from the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: Les Miserables, Volume 5: Jean Valjean
The last volume of Hugo's novel is found at this etext from the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia Library: Les Miserables Volume 2
At this collection from the University of Virginia Library, Hugo's novel continues in Volume 2 with the story of Cosette. Read the whole volume.
New York University
New York University: Literature Annotations: The Idiot
Sponsored by a multi-disciplinary Medical Humanities program at The University of New York School of Medicine, this brief summary/commentary focuses on the medical aspects of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."
Middlebury College
The Definitive Study Guide for the Brothers Karamazov
Middlebury College provides this site authored by a professor of Russian language and literature that provides summaries and analyses for all sections of The Brothers Karamazov, a biography of Dostoevsky, character analyses, and a...
Middlebury College
Middlebury College: Dostoevsky and the Devils
Authored by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site has much to offer the student of Dostoesky's novel The Devils. The site contains plot summaries, character analyses, and links to related...
British Library
British Library: Language & Literature: Books for Cooks: 1800s Food
View a series of extracts from ninetheen-century cookbooks written in English and learn what people in England ate during this century of change. Accompanying essays explain various aspects of the English diet of the Victorian period,...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Whittier
This Cambridge History of English and American Literature entry is a bibliography of the works of John Greenleaf Whittier, including their original dates of publication. Lists works of biography and criticism written about Whittier...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Race and Identity in Antebellum America
This unit features authors of Antebellum America and how they portray the American identity through their literature. Click on the tabs to explore the various resources available to enhance this unit.
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