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History 147 with Katie Simonton: 19th Century American History

A Companion to 19th-Century America

The Civil War Era and Reconstruction: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History

Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction

The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical World

Farewell, My Nation: American Indians and the United States in the Nineteenth Century

The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century

Films and Videos

America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Great Courses
The African Americans: Into the Fire 1861-1896
PBS
We Shall Remain: A History of Native Americans
PBS
The Great War: The History of World War I
PBS

Online Resources

Encyclopedias:

The US from 1816 to 1850
Britannica Academic
The Civil War
Britannica Academic

Primary Sources:

Primary Source Websites: 19th Century America
Primary Sources: Andrew Jackson Papers
Library of Congress
Rise of Industrial America: 1876-1900
Library of Congress
Primary Sources: Historic American Newspapers
LoC & NEH

New York Times Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full page and article images with searchable full text for issues dating back to 1851 to 2007

Articles:

How the Second Industrial Revolution Changed Americans' Lives
History.com
Industrialization and the Growth of Cities in Nineteenth-Century America
American Studies (journal)
The Morphology of Nineteenth-Century Cities in the United States
Urban History Review (journal)
The Age of Social Transformation
The Atlantic (magazine)