19th century Quote by Adam Conover

America was built on cheap and abundant coal.

— Stephen Moore

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which…

— Martin Cruz Smith

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

— Thaddeus Stevens

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount…

— Jeff Goodell

“...it reveals the legacy of an environmental catastrophe, its human tolls and triumphs, its corporate greed and indifference, its governmental lapses and neglect. In…

— Joan Quigley

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

— Paul Hawken

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became…

— Frantz Fanon

Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.

— Jamelle Bouie

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but…

— Edith Wharton

America in the 1800s isn't quite the historical mystery hotbed as the same period in the country it bested in the War of Independence,…

— Sarah Weinman