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Edwardian Britain (1880-1914)

Scenes of Edwardian Life by Charles Petrie

The Pursuit of Pleasure by Keith Middlemas

The Age of Extravagance: An Edwardian reader by Mary Elizabeth Edes and Dudley Fraisier

Edward and the Edwardians by Phillip Julian

Edwardian Promenade by James Laver

Edwardian England 1901-1914 ed by Simon Nowell-Smith

The Marlborough House Set by Anita Leslie

1900s Lady by Kate Caffrey

The Fast Set by George Plumptre

The Country House Party by Phyllida Barstow

Leisure and Pleasure in the 19th Century by Stella Margetson

Behind the Wheel: the Pleasures of Early Motoring by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu & F. Wilson McComb

Carriages at Eleven: Edwardian Theatre by W. MacQueen Pope

The Perfect Summer: 1911 by Juliet Nicolson

The Servants’ Hall by Merlin Waterson

The Edwardian Theatre by A.N. Wilson

Edward VII: A Portrait by Christopher Hibbert

The Opulent Eye: Victorian and Edwardian Interiors by Nicholas Cooper

Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders

Seventy Years Young by Daisy, Countess Fingall

The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill by Mrs Cornwallis-West

The Party That Lasted 100 Days: The Late Victorian Season a Social Study by Hilary and Mary Evans

Belle Epoque France (1889-1914)

Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France by Charles Rearick

Belle Epoque: Paris in the Nineties by Raymond Rudorff

Dining with Marcel Proust: A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque by Shirley King and James Beard

Tallest tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque by Joseph Harriss

The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque by Benjamin F. Martin

France, Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber

Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France by Mary Louise Roberts

The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914

Elegant wits and grand horizontals by Cornelia Otis Skinner

Alice Guy Blaché by Alison McMahan

La Belle epoque: Fifteen euphoric years of European history by Eleonora Bairati

The Book of Proust by Jan Dalley

Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne

Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez

Proust and His World by William Sansom

A Proust Souvenir by William Howard Adams

Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati by Scot D. Ryersson, Michael Orlando Yaccarino and Quentin Crisp

The Adventurous World of Paris 1900 -1914 by Nigel Gosling

Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans by Virginia Rounding

Gilded Age America (1870-1919)

Once Upon a City: NY photos 1890-1910 by Grace Mayer

A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs Astor in Gilded Age New York by Greg King

A Silhouette in Diamonds: the Life of Mrs Potter Palmer by Ishbel Ross

The Upper Crust: An Informal History of New York’s Highest Society by Allan Churchill

The Big Spenders by Lucius Beebe

The Last Resorts by Cleveland Amory

The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson

After the Ball by Patricia Beard

Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York by M.H. Dunlop

American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the “It” Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis

American Country Houses of the Gilded Age by Arnold Lewis

First Four Hundred : New York and the Gilded Age by Jerry E. Patterson

The Proper Bostonians by Cleveland Amory

To Marry An English Lord by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace

The Vanderbilts by Jerry E. Patterson

Mrs. Astor’s New York by Dr. Eric Homberger

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

“King Lehr” and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr

Incredible New York: High Life and Low Life of Last Hundred Years by Lloyd R. Morris

The spectacular San Franciscans by Julia Cooley Altrocchi

Memphis down in Dixie by Shields McIlwaine

The Amiable Baltimoreans by Professor Francis F. Beirne

The serene Cincinnatians by Alvin F Harlow

The lusty Texans of Dallas by John William Rogers

Washington Cavalcade by Charles Hurd

Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society by Wayne Craven

When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan

The American Country House by Clive Aslet

Fifth Avenue: A Very Social History by Kate Simon

Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners‎ by Laura Claridge

African-American History (1870-1920)

A Century of Negro Migration by Carter G. Woodson

A Short History of the American Negro by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

As We See It by Robert Lewis Waring

Beacon Lights of the Race by Green Polonius Hamilton

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Following the Color Line by Ray Stannard Baker

The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington

The American Negro: what he was, what he is, and what he may become by William Hannibal Thomas

The Negro in the South by Booker T. Washington & W. E. B. Du Bois

The college-bred Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois

The history of the Negro church By Carter G. Woodson

The Negro in Business by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Philadelphia Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

The African Abroad, volume one & volume two

The Afro-American Press and its Editors by Irvine Garland Penn

Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson

History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest by Edward A. Johnson

The Black Side of Atlanta by Edward R. Carter

Tuskegee & its people: their ideals and achievements By Emmett Jay Scott

Twenty-five years in the Black Belt by William J. Edwards

The Black New Yorkers : the Schomburg illustrated chronology by Christopher Howard Dodson

Gerri Major’s Black society with Doris E. Saunders

The other Brahmins : Boston’s Black upper class, 1750-1950 by Adelaide M. Cromwell

Certain people : America’s black elite by Stephen Birmingham

A small nation of people : W.E.B. Du Bois and African American portraits of progress by the Library of Congress

The Black Washingtonians : the Anacostia Museum illustrated chronology

Leading the race : the transformation of the Black elite in the nation’s capital, 1880-1920 by Jacqueline M. Moore

Before Harlem : the Black experience in New York City before World War I by Marcy S. Sacks

The guide to Black Washington : places and events of historical and cultural significance in the nation’s capital

The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities‎ by Lawrence C. Ross, Jr.

The Black New Yorkers : the Schomburg illustrated chronology

Aristocrats of color: the Black elite, 1880-1920‎ by Willard B. Gatewood

Howard University: The First Hundred Years 1867-1967‎ by Rayford W. Logan

African American women and the vote, 1837-1965‎ by Ann Dexter Gordon & Bettye Collier-Thomas

African American women in the struggle for the vote, 1850-1920‎ by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

Pauline E. Hopkins: a literary biography‎ by Hanna Wallinger

Booker T. Washington: the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, Volume 2‎ by Louis R. Harlan

A Colored Woman in a White World‎ by Mary Church Terrell

‘They say’: Ida B. Wells and the reconstruction of race‎ by James West Davidson

Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American reform, 1880-1930‎ by Patricia Ann Schechter

Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the struggle for racial uplift‎ by Jacqueline M. Moore

Negro league baseball: the rise and ruin of a Black institution‎ by Neil Lanctot


All pictures, unless otherwise noted, are from the Mary Evans Picture Gallery.


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