1865-1898

After a legendary but over-the-hill fighter reluctantly agrees to train fifteen-year-old Will, the son of a rich local politician in nineteenth-century New York City, Will finds himself pleading with the stubborn older fighter to retire before he dies in the ring.

A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.

Learn about the powerful people who guided the nation through the development of the industrial United States.

So many men, so little time?New York City, 1894. Heiress Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother and his friend, Jack Culhane, on their adventures. While they are off seeing the world, she?s stuck at home, frightening off the list of men her mother hopes will ask for her hand in marriage. Caroline longs for adventure, passion, love, and most of all?Jack Culhane, an unconventional Irish-American bachelor with new money and no title?a completely unacceptable suitor, in the eyes of Caroline?s mother. Can Jack and Caroline find love, against all odds, with danger looming and despite the forces pulling them apart?.

In 1872 New York City, a young newspaper reporter puts his life in danger when he goes undercover to investigate a conspiracy in the violent world of bare-knuckle boxing.

Volume six of a multi-volume history of the United States. Chronicles the war between capital and labor in the U.S. in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Examines the Battle of the Little Big Horn from the perspectives of the Sioux, Cheyenne and Crow who had lived on the Great Plains for generations, and of the white settlers who pushed west across the continent.

A study of American foreign policy during the last half of the nineteenth century, examining the economic forces which resulted in commercial and landed expansion, and discussing the link between that era and the maturation of the United States into a world power.