The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York
10 best books like The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York (Patricia Cline Cohen): Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
| Author | David King |
| ISBN | 0307452891 |
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking...
| Author | James Ruddick |
| ISBN | 0802139744 |
In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,...
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
| Author | Gregg Olsen |
| ISBN | 1400097460 |
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters. But within a month of arriving at what...
A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
| Author | Michael E. McGerr |
| ISBN | 0195183657 |
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle class had enough influence on the country to start its own revolution. Before the Progressive Era most...
| Author | Alan Trachtenberg |
| ISBN | 0809058286 |
A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake....
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
| Author | Leslie J. Reagan |
| ISBN | 0520216571 |
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when...
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective,...
| Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
| ISBN | 0674023498 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.
Smallwood's...
| Author | Matthew Frye Jacobson |
| ISBN | 0809016281 |
How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.
In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close relationship between immigration and America's newly expansionist ambitions at the turn of the twentieth...
| Author | Robert A. Orsi |
| ISBN | 0300091354 |
In a masterful evocation of Italian Harlem and the men and women who lived there, Robert Orsi examines how the annual festa of the Madonna of 115th Street both influenced and reflected the lives of the celebrants. His prize-winning book offers a new perspective on lived religion, the place of religion...
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion...
| Author | Kōji Suzuki |
| ISBN | 4041101832 |
My mini-review of Birthday says the book is “A nice coda to the Ring trilogy.” That is now inaccurate since two more books in the series have appeared. This installment advances the story in time and technology, but too much of the action appears “off-stage”: not a good thing for a plot-driven...
Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
Catholicism and American Freedom is a groundbreaking historical account of the tensions (and occasional alliances) between Catholic and American understandings of a healthy society and the individual person, including dramatic conflicts over issues such as slavery, public education, economic...
Men Like That: A Southern Queer History
| Author | John Howard |
| ISBN | 0226354709 |
We don't usually associate thriving queer culture with rural America, but John Howard's unparalleled history of queer life in the South persuasively debunks the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. In fact, this book shows that the nominally conservative institutions...
