The Civil War
Slavery and Abolition
Religion
Education
Self-Help and Self-Improvement
Travel and Westward Expansion
Poetry
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The books included in The
Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Books and Periodicals
illuminate many themes central to American life in the mid- to late nineteenth
century, with particular attention to social and political history, education,
psychology, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
In fact, almost any issue of importance in mid-nineteenth-century
American life is represented in some form among these books.
This sampler of collection themes highlights only a few of the many
topics about which the collection contains particularly rich arrays of
material, demonstrating how readers can use the collection to explore their
own areas of special interest. Often,
a single work concerns multiple topics, suggesting the ways in which the ideas
and preoccupations of the time intersected and influenced each other.
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