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.
Father Pernin reports on the chaos in Peshtigo as people try to flee the inferno.
The Mahdi dies after capturing Khartoum, but his Mahdist forces make Omdurman their capital.
Women rally for the Declaration of Sentiments, which declares women and men equal.
Reforms are set into motion to make Ireland independent.
Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans a kidnapping of President Lincoln.
Examine questions and discussion topics about the life and legacy of Beatrix Potter.
Dostoevsky's writing reflects his belief that suffering is a part of life.
The Douglass family moves to Washington, D.C. in 1870 and buys the Cedar Hill estate, breaking the neighborhood's "whites only" rule.
Days before his murder, President Lincoln recounts a dream he had about his own assassination.
Dr. Henry Jekyll has written a full account of his experiments, which caused him to turn into Edward Hyde, but no one reads his statement until after ...
Concerned that Dr. Jekyll has willed his fortune to an unknown man called Hyde, Gabriel Utterson visits his friend and client, the doctor, to make sur...
Now that Henry Jekyll has disappeared, or died, Gabriel Utterson is cleared to read a letter which Dr. Lanyon has given him. He is stunned at its cont...
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