This page brings together free online books and topic searches related to late nineteenth-century United States history, including industrialization, immigration, labor, politics, urbanization, and social change. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
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Topics – US History Late 19th Century – 19thC
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to United States history in the late 19th century. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
American History 19th Century – Free PDF Books 1865-1900
- African Americans – History 1863-1877
- History 1865-
- Foreign Relations 1865-1869
- Politics and government 1865-1869
- Politics and government 1865-1877
- Politics and government 1865-1883
- Foreign Relations 1865-1898
- History 1865-1898
- Description and travel 1865-1900
- Politics and government 1865-1900
- Civilization 1865-1918
- Economic conditions 1865-1918
- Intellectual life 1865-1918
- Social conditions 1865-1918
- Social life and customs 1865-1918
- Foreign Relations 1865-1921
- History 1865-1921
- Politics and government 1865-1933
- Foreign Relations 1869-1877
- Politics and government 1869-1877
- Politics and government 1877-1881
- African Americans – History 1877-1964
- Foreign Relations 1881-1885
- Politics and government 1881-1885
- Politics and government 1885-1889
- Politics and government 1889-1893
- Politics and government 1893-1897
- Foreign Relations 1897-1901
- Politics and government 1897-1901
- Civilization 19th century
- Social life and customs 19th century
- History Personal Narratives
- Appropriations and expenditures
- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Frontier and Pioneer Life
- Gilded Age
- Hawaii – History
- Industrialization
- Social Darwinism
- Spanish American War, 1898
- Women social reformers
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