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This category lists sites dedicated to people of historical significance who lived during the nineteenth century.

Subcategories

• Adams, Daniel Lucius
• Adams, John
• Adams, John Quincy
• Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of
• Arthur, Chester A.
• Barnard, Henry
• Besant, Annie
• Bierce, Ambrose
• Bonaparte, Napoleon
• Booth, John Wilkes
• Breckinridge, John C.
• Brown, John
• Bryant, William Cullen
• Buchanan, James
• Buck, Leffert
• Bunker, Chang and Eng
• Burke and Hare
• Burr, Aaron
• Burton, Sir Richard Francis
• Cannon, Frank J.
• Carnegie, Andrew
• Chamberlain, Joshua L.
• Clausewitz, Karl von
• Cleveland, Grover
• Colt, Samuel
• Crane, Stephen
• Custer, George Armstrong
• Dallas, George M.
• Damien, Father
• Davis, Jefferson
• Deere, John
• Dewey, John
• Dickens, Charles
• Dickinson, Emily
• Douglass, Frederick
• Dufferin, Lord
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
• Fillmore, Millard
• Forrest, Nathan Bedford
• Garfield, James A.
• George IV, King
• Gerry, Elbridge
• Gladstone, William Ewart
• Grant, Ulysses S.
• Hamlin, Hannibal
• Harrison, Benjamin
• Harrison, William Henry
• Hayes, Rutherford B.
• Henry, Edward Lamson
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
• Houston, Sam
• Irving, Washington
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Johnson, Andrew
• Johnson, Richard M.
• King, William R. D.
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Lincoln, Mary Todd
• Lisgar, John Young, 1st Baron
• Livingstone, David
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
• Longstreet, Augustus
• Loring, William Wing
• Macdonald, Sir John A.
• Madison, James
• Maguire, Tom
• Marx, Karl
• McCormick, Cyrus Hall
• McGonagall, William
• McKinley, William
• Melville, Herman
• Merrick, Joseph Carey
• Monck, Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount
• Monroe, James
• Morgan, John Pierpont
• Mosby, John Singleton
• Muir, John
• Nast, Thomas
• Nelson, Horatio
• Newman, John Henry
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Nightingale, Florence
• Oastler, Richard
• Paine, Thomas
• Peirce, Charles Sanders
• Phelps, George
• Pierce, Franklin
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Polk, James
• Rhodes, Cecil
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Rutledge, Ann
• Schopenhauer, Arthur
• Sherman, William Tecumseh
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher
• Taylor, Zachary
• Thoreau, Henry David
• Tocqueville, Alexis de
• Tompkins, Daniel
• Tubman, Harriet
• Turner, Nat
• Twain, Mark
• Tyler, John
• Tzu Hsi
• Van Buren, Martin
• Victoria, Queen
• Walker, Mary Edwards
• Washington, Booker T.
• Whitman, Walt
• William IV, King
• Zangwill, Israel
• Zola, Emile
• Zollicoffer, Felix

Resources in This Category

• Daniel Coit Gilman

  http://www.americanbiblehistory.com/daniel_gilman.html
  Founder and first president of Johns Hopkins University and a leading light in the development of research universities in the United States.

• Edith Jemima Simcox - Victorian Scholar and Reformer

  http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/cfulmer/simcox/
  A biography and bibliography, and includes pictures, reprinted articles, and information on movements/reform efforts.

• First-Person Narratives of the American South

  http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/texts.html
  Diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations, including women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• J. Bruce Ismay

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ismay
  Biographical profile with links and a photograph.

• Nancy Hart Confederate Spy

  http://www.richwooders.com/net/nancy/hart.htm
  Presents a brief biography, facts, unanswered questions, and photos.

• Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

  http://www.phineasquimby.com/biography.html
  Profile of a philosopher and healer.

• Priscilla on the Trail of Tears

  http://sueglasco.tripod.com/trailoftears/
  A search for knowledge of Priscilla Silkwood.

• The Life and Times of Fred Kimble

  http://www.oldmp.com/fredkimble/
  A book review.

• The Penniman House - A Whaling Story

  http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/112penniman/112penniman.htm
  A lesson plan on teaching historic people and places.

• Wild Rose - Civil War Spy

  http://www.wildrosebook.com/
  Book review on Rose O’Neale Greenhow.

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