Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century

by Finkelman, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780684804996
• ISBN10: 0684804999
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Gale Group

Summary

"The 19th century was arguably the most important in the nation's history, making the publication of this first-rate encyclopedia a significant event. Students using this 600-entry work, which is conveniently keyed to the National Standards for United States History, will find the entries easy to follow and enjoyable to read. It is an essential purchase for all public and academic libraries."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002.

Table of Contents

Printing Technology

Prisons and Punishment

Professions

Progress, Idea of Progressivism

Property

Prostitution

Protestantism

Overview

Episcopalians

Congregationalists

Presbyterians

Methodists

Baptists

Lutherans

Mennonites

Liberal Protestantism

Psychology

Puerto Rico

Quakers

R

Race and Racial Thinking

Race Laws

Radicalism

Railroads

Ranching and Livestock Raising

Realism and Naturalism

Reconstruction

The Politics of Reconstruction

The South

The North

The West

Recreation

Reform, Political

Reform, Idea of

Reform, Social

Regulation of Business

Religion

Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

Religion as a Political Issue

Republicanism

Republican Motherhood

Republican Party

Revivalism

Revolutionary War Remembered

Rhode Island

Richmond

Romanticism

Rubber

S

St. Louis

Saloons and the Drinking Life

San Francisco

Sculpture

Seattle

Sectionalism

Segregation

Segregation and Civil Rights

Urban Segregation

Seminole Wars

Settlement Houses

Sexual Morality

Slavery

Overview

Indian Slaveholding

Domestic Slave Trade and Migration

African Slave Trade

Slave Life

Slave Insurrections

Runaway Slaves

Law of Slavery

Defense of Slavery

Slogans, Songs, and Nicknames, Political

Small Businesses

Social Gospel

Social Life

Rural Social Life

Urban Social Life

Sociology

South, The

The South before the Civil War

The New South after Reconstruction

South America, Foreign Relations with

South Carolina

South Dakota

Spanish-American War

Spiritualism

Sports

Sports and the Sporting Life

Baseball

State Government

Statehood and Admission

States' Rights

Steam Power

Steel and the Steel Industry

Stock Markets

Suburbs

Supreme Court

The Marshall Court

The Antebellum Court

The Court during the Civil War and Reconstruction

The Gilded Age

Slavery

The Economy

Supreme Court Justices

T

Taxation and Public Finance

Telegraph

Temperance Movement

Tennessee

Territorial Government

Texas

Textiles

Theater

Third Parties

Trails to the West

Transcendentalism

Transportation

Animal Power

Roads and Turnpikes

Canals and Waterways

Railroads

Urban and Interurban Transportation

Automobiles

Travel, Technology of Trusts

U--V

Underground Railroad

Unitarianism and Universalism

Utah

Vacations and Resorts

Vaudeville and Burlesque

Vermont

Veterans Organizations

Victorianism

Vigilantes

Violence

Virginia

Virgin Islands

Voters and Voting

White Male Franchise

Black Voters before the Civil War

Black Voters after the Civil War

The Women's Vote

W--Z

War of 1812

Washington, George

Washington, D.C.

Washington State

Waterpower

Wealth

Welfare and Charity

Wells Fargo

West, The

West Virginia

Whaling

Whig Party

Wild West Shows

Wisconsin

Women

Overview

Women's Rights

Women's Labor

Women in the Professions

Woman as Image and Icon

Work

Agricultural Labor

Domestic Labor

Artisans and Craftsworkers

The Workshop

Factory Labor

Child Labor

Middle-Class Occupations

Working-Class Culture

World's Fairs

Wyoming

Young America Movement

Zoos