Internet Resources

Abolition Movement

• Abolition and Anti-Slavery Movements ~ An exhibit from the African American Odyssey, Library of Congress.
• The Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition ~ A part of the exhibit Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery, The New York Public Library.

Education Reform

• Only a Teacher ~ Click Teaching Timeline or Schoolhouse Pioneers for information. From a PBS documentary.
• School: the Story of American Public Education ~ Biographies of individuals such as Horace Mann, Catherine Beecher, and John Dewey. From the PBS documentary.

Labor and Industrial Reform

• Illinois Labor History Society ~ Information and images from the Center for Law and Computers at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
• The Labor Trail ~ The Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies (CCWCS) presents the Interactive Labor Trail. This on-line history resource builds on “The Labor Trail: Chicago's History of Working-Class Life and Struggle,” a map of 140 significant locations in the history of labor, migration, and working-class culture in Chicago and Illinois.
• Working Heroes--Men and Women Who Shaped America's Labor Movement ~ Biographies of significant people in labor history. From the AFL-CIO.

Mental Health Reform (mental hospitals/asylums)

• Biography of Dorothea Dix ~ Information from the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services.
• Dorothea Dix ~ Information from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
• History of Mental Heath Services ~ Scroll way down to get to the History section.

Prison Reform

• Prison Reform ~ Information from the University of San Diego

Second Great Awakening

• The Great Awakening and Revivalism in America ~ An overview of the social, political, religious, and musical effects of both the first and second Great Awakening revivalist movements that took place in 18th and 19th centuries. From a PBS documentary.

Temperance

• Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition ~ A collection of information from Brown University.
• Temperance and Prohibition ~ An exhibit of information from the History Department, The Ohio State University.

Transcendentalism

• American Transcendentalism ~ Scroll down and click Criticism. From Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature ~ Scroll down > Click "Early National Literature Part 1" for Transcendentalism and Emerson; Click "Early National Literature Part 2" for Thoreau.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy ~ Aricle from Stanford University on the origins, character, authors, and development of transcendentalism.

Women's Rights

• American Women ~ A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States.
• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony ~ The companion website to the Ken Burns/PBS film.
• A Woman's World ~ Medical care, women's rights, and literary women during the time of Lincoln and the Civil War. From the PBS film The Time of the Lincolns.
• Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party ~ American Memory, Library of Congress.