This is the most comprehensive historical collection of nineteenth-century Latin American photography in existence anywhere in the American continent. The collection takes the form of 8,000 titles ...

Indeed, immigrants came to America seeking land that they could farm. But throughout the nineteenth century, the population living in cities rose faster than the rural population.

American farmers in the 19th century were angry about high tariffs that raised prices for manufactured goods and favored urban manufacturing at the expense of the rural population. After the Civil War ...

The westward expansion and urbanization of the 19th century left clusters of families scattered across rural America, with only muddy ruts and a rudimentary web of roads to connect them. To attend ...

Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary ...