19th century

During the Indian Wars between 1866 and 1891, ten thousand African American soldiers fought for their country in the wester territories, yet had the overcome the prejudices of both the armed forces and American society.

Ten short novels by a variety of 19th and 20th century writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground; Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Ilych; E. M. Forster - The machine stops; Joseph Conrad - The secret sharer; Thomas Mann - Death in Venice; Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis; Flannery O'Connor - The displaced room; Saul Bellow- Seize the day; Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No one to write the Colonel; Doris Lessing - The temptation of Jack Orkney.

Biography of Stephen Foster, a nineteenth century American songwriter, whose songs, which include "Oh! Susanna" celebrate the rural South.

Text and accompanying photographs show the changing role of women in the United States following the Civil War.

Discusses the types of clothing people have worn throughout history, why they dressed the way they did, and how clothing reflects and even influences history.

Text and accompanying photographs show the changing role of women in the United States following the Civil War.

Brings together Hopkin's extant poems and verse fragments, his earliest poems, and his own Latin poems with English translations.

Examines the purpose of government sponsored asylums in nineteenth-century England as a method of social control, discusses the reasons for the increased numbers of officially recognized insane, and describes the development of medical education in relation to the mentally ill.