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Reform Movements

 

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General:

• Gilder Lehmen Institute:  Pre-Civil War Reform

• The Burned-Over District

• Women and Social Movements in United States 1600-2000

• Women in America, 1820-1842

• Digital History:  Pre-Civil War Reform

Transcendentalism & Creation of Utopias:

• The Web of American Transcendentalism

• The Transcendentalists

• Age of the Sage:  New England Transcendentalism

• Letter from George Ripley to Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Utopian Communities WebQuest (also transcendentalism)

• "A New View of Society" by Robert Owen

• America and the Utopian Dream

Asylums -- Prison and Mental: 

• Astounding Disclosures! Three Years In A Mad House

• Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb

• Brief Description of the State Lunatic Asylum At Utica, N.Y.

• Charles Sumner Supports Dix

• Discourse Delivered At The Dedication Of The American Asylum

• An Account for the Asylum for the Insane Established by the Society of Friends

• Address Of The The Trustees Of The New England Institution For The Education Of The Blind To The Public

• Dorothea Dix

• WPA (Women's Prison Association) History (Sedgwick & Gibbons)

• Catherine Sedgwick and Abigail Hopper Gibbons

• WPA - The Founding Years

• The Complex Legacy of Dorothea Dix

Temperance Movement: 

• Ardent Spirits:  The Origins of the American Temperance Movement

• Lyman Beecher:  Reform

• Lyman Beecher:  The Government of God Desirable

• Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition

• Abraham Lincoln, "Address before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society,"

• The Tree of Intemperance (see image on bottom of page)

• Edward C. Delavan

Religious Reform Movements (2^nd Great Awakening, plus): 

• Georgia Camp Meeting, 1807

• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic

• Sunday School Books

• Mary Doolittle Leaves Her Family for a Shaker Community, 1830

• Benevolent Empire

• Charles G. Finney and the Second Great Awakening

• "What a Revival of Religion Is"  by Charles Finney

• Lyman Beecher & the Problem of Religious Pluralism in America

• Religious Groups, Benevolent Organizations, and American Pluralism

• College Lecture on Revivalism & Benevolence

• Religious Movements

• Official Creed of the Shakers:   Compendium

• Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening

 

Education Reform: 

• History of American Education Web Project

• The Lyceum Movement

• Address Of The The Trustees Of The New England Institution For The Education Of The Blind To The Public

• William Holmes McGuffey and His Readers

• School:  The Story of the American Public Education -- Innovators

• Digital History:  The Struggle for Public Schools --Horace Mann

• Horace Mann

• The Lyceum in America Before the Civil War

Women’s Movement (to 1860): 

• Votes for Women

• Not For Ourselves Alone

• Living the Legacy - Women's Rights Movement:  History of the Movement

• Upstate New York & the Women's Rights Movement

• The Roots of Feminism in 19th Century America

• Sarah Margaret Fuller:  See Also Transcendentalism Links Above

Abolitionist Movement:

• Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport

• LOC Exhibition: Abolition

• American Visionaries:  Frederick Douglass

• Anti-Slavery Literature Project

• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

• Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

• Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

• Angelina & Sarah Grimke

• William Lloyd Garrison's Declaration of Sentiments

• Whittier's Account of American Anti-Slavery Society Founding Convention

• Garrison's Inaugural Editorial

• Historian Eric Foner on the Abolitionist Movement

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth:  Ain't I a Woman

• Africans in America:  Judgement Day:  Resource Bank

• Angelina Grimke's Appeal to the Christian Women of the South

• Narrative of Sojourner Truth

• My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass

• David Walker's Appeal

• Abolitionist Songs

• David Walker:  American Patriot?

 

*LOC = Library of Congress