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Across 19th Century, Social History, United States, and Social Science — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as American Yesterday by Eric Sloane.

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The Ocean Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships — Stephen Fox

The Ocean Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Samuel Cunard and the Revolutionary World of the Great Atlantic Steamships

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

African Americans Confront Lynching — Waldrep, Christopher

African Americans Confront Lynching

Waldrep, Christopher

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Bawdy City Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915 — Katie M. Hemphill

Bawdy City Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915

Katie M. Hemphill

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Seven Social Movements that Changed America — Linda Gordon

Seven Social Movements that Changed America

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Evolution Toward Equality Equality for Women in the American West — Teresa Neal

Evolution Toward Equality Equality for Women in the American West

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

A House in the Mountains The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism — Caroline Moorehead

A House in the Mountains The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Creative Conflict in African American Thought — Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Creative Conflict in African American Thought

Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

The Broken Heart of America St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States — Walter Johnson

The Broken Heart of America St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

The Last Negroes at Harvard The Class of 1963 and the Eighteen Young Men who Changed Harvard Forever — Kent Garrett

The Last Negroes at Harvard The Class of 1963 and the Eighteen Young Men who Changed Harvard Forever

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

The Divorce Colony How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier — April White

The Divorce Colony How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago — Dominic A. Pacyga

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Dominic A. Pacyga

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Rites of Execution Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865 — Louis P. Masur

Rites of Execution Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Journal of an Indian Trader — Flores

Journal of an Indian Trader

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Cities of the Dead Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 — William Alan Blair

Cities of the Dead Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914

William Alan Blair

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas — Ernesto Capello

Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Ernesto Capello

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Race Horse Men How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack — Katherine C. Mooney

Race Horse Men How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack

Katherine C. Mooney

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Suffrage Women’s Long Battle for the Vote — Ellen Carol DuBois

Suffrage Women’s Long Battle for the Vote

Ellen Carol DuBois

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930 Reading Historical Artifacts — Jane Perkins Claney

Rockingham Ware in American Culture, 1830-1930 Reading Historical Artifacts

Jane Perkins Claney

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

A Place of Their Own Creating the Deaf Community in America — John V. Van Cleve

A Place of Their Own Creating the Deaf Community in America

John V. Van Cleve

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Mark Twain’s Audience A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain — Robert McParland

Mark Twain’s Audience A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain

Robert McParland

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Roaring Camp The Social World of the California Gold Rush — Susan Lee Johnson

Roaring Camp The Social World of the California Gold Rush

Susan Lee Johnson

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Crooked Paths to Allotment The Fight Over Federal Indian Policy After the Civil War — C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

Crooked Paths to Allotment The Fight Over Federal Indian Policy After the Civil War

C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Citizen Hobo How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America — Todd DePastino

Citizen Hobo How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Three Tenant Families — James Agee

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Three Tenant Families

Themes: 19th Century • Social History • United States

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for American Yesterday by Eric Sloane — spanning 19th Century, Social History, United States and featuring authors such as Stephen Fox, Waldrep, Christopher, Katie M. Hemphill, Linda Gordon, and others.

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