Nineteenth Century Life Chapters

Maybrick's illness coincides with the Ripper's disappearance during October.

In Charles Frazier's book, Cold Mountain, Inman is a wounded Confederate soldier who deserts after participating in terrible battles.

Chicago's prosperous and proud business district burns to the ground.

Due to demand for her story, Florie writes a best-selling book about her ordeal, then spends time on the lecture circuit. Soon after, however, she be...

Marys son John is captured in Europe and tried in a civil trial, which ends in a mistrial.

Mary Ann Nichols, the Ripper's first victim, has her throat slit and abdomen cut open.

At the start of World War I, few countries can match Germany'sair ships- often calledZeppelins.

Although there is evidence that Maybrick might be Jack the Ripper, no one knows the truth.

Edgardo Mortara is a Jewish child, living in a Papal State, who is legally removed from his home under canon laws regarding baptism.

A slave owner himself, Jefferson introduces a bill to end slavery in Virginia in 1779.

The successful cotton merchant with whom Florie falls in love is actually a drug addict with a mistress and children.

Part of the fabric of American life, cowboys have been the subject of books, movies and other romanticized tales. In reality, the life of an American ...