Reform Movements in 19th Century America
Biographies are located in the Biography section of the Media Center and are arranged alphabetically by the subject’s last name.
General books on reform movements are located in the Dewey numbers:
277.3
301.412
305.4
305.412
322.4
324.623
326
331.4
973.5
973.7
973.7114
973.7115
973.91
975.03
977.311041
Check the card catalog for specific topics. The following are some of the subject headings you may find useful:
Abolitionists--Biography
Abolitionists--Southern States--History--19th Century
Abolitionists--United States--History
Second Great Awakening
Women’s Movement--History
Women’s Rights--History
Women’s Rights--United States
Women’s Rights--United States--History--19th Century
Use a keyword search if you do not find what you are looking for in a subject search. Once you find a book that meets your criteria, click on the subject headings in the card catalog record for similar books.
| R 200.973 RE | Religion and American Cultures |
| R 301.452 IN | International Library of Negro Life and History |
| R 303.48 AM | American Social Reform Movements Reference |
| R 303 SO | Social Policy: Essential Primary Soruces |
| R 303 SO | Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources |
| R 303 SO | Family in Society: Essential Primary Resources |
| R 303.484 EN | Encyclopedia of American Social Movements |
| R 324.623 FR | Women’s Suffrage in America |
| R 324.63 FR | Women’s Suffrage in America: An Eyewitness History |
| R 331.0973 WO | Working in America |
| R 346.7301 FR | Women’s Rights on Trial |
| R 395.42 ST | Women’s Rights |
| R 903 NE | New Dictionary of the History of Ideas |
| R 973 AM | American Eras: The Reform Era and Eastern U.S. Development |
| R 973 AM | American Eras: Civil War and Reconstruction |
| R 973 EN | Encyclopedia of the New American Nation |
| R 973 OP | Opposing Viewpoints in American History |
| R 973.03 DI | Dictionary of American History |
| R 973.03 EN | The Encyclopedia of American Political History |
| R 973.03 EN | Encyclopedia of American Studies |
| R 973.5 EN | Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century |
| R 973.5 EV | Events that Changed America in the Nineteenth Century |
American History Index
| VC B DOUGLAS | Frederick Douglas |
| VC 973.56 DE | Democracy and Reform |
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Databases
ABC-CLIO
• American Government
• American History
Biography Resource Center
EBSCOhost
• Biography Collection Complete
• History Reference Center
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
• History Study Center
Facts on File
• American History Online
• American Women's History Online
JSTOR
Proquest Historical Newspapers (The New York Times, 1851-2001)
Student Resource Center Gold
• U.S. History
eBooks
ABC-CLIO History Reference Online
Gale Virtual Reference Library
• American Social Reform Movements Reference Library
• Dictonary of American History
• Encylopedia of the New American Nation
• Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources
• Government, Politics and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
• General 19th Century Web Sites
• Abolitionism
• Populist Movement
• Prison and Asylum Reform
• Public Education
• Religious Reform
• Temperance
• Transcendentalism
• Women's Rights
General 19th Century Web Sites
19th Century American Cultural History
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury1800.htm
Abolitionism
Abolitionist Movement
http://afgen.com/abmovement.html
A Brief History of the American Abolitionist Movement
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/brief.htm
The Anti-Slavery Movement
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/abolish.html
Abolition: The African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html
Populist Movement
Agrarian Distress and the Rise of Populism
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch8_p1.htm
Agricultural Problems and Gilded Age Politics
http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his1302/agrarian.html
The Populist Movement
http://www.sagehistory.net/gildedage/populists.htm
Populist Party Platform
http://www.pinzler.com/ushistory/popparplatsupp.html
Documents on the Populist Movement
http://history.missouristate.edu/wrmiller/Populism/texts/Documents/Documents_on_Pops.htm
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Jim Crow Stories . Populist Party | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_populist.html
Prison and Asylum Reform
Prisons
The Prison Society - History
http://www.prisonsociety.org/about/history.shtml
Prison Reform
http://www.jsd.k12.ca.us/bf/bflibrary/JSD%20School%20Lib%20Sites/TRP/Reform/PrisonReform.htm
Asylums
Brief History of Eastern State Hospital and the Treatment of Mental Illness in America http://www.bipolarworld.net/bipolar%20disorder/History/hist5.htm
An Account of the Events Surrounding the Origin of Friends Hospital
http://www.friendshospitalonline.org/eventsaccount.htm
Dorothea Lynde Dix
http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/mhddsas/DIX/dorothea.html
Dorothea Dix
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/dorotheadix.html
Public Education
Victory of the Common School Movement: A Turning Point in American Educational History
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/historians/chapter04.htm
Common School Movement
http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1871/Common-School-Movement.html
The Common School Movement
http://www.weac.org/greatschools/Issuepapers/commonschool.htm
The Common School Movement and Compulsory Education
http://www.mises.org/story/1679
Ideas--Education--History
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/edhistory.html
SCHOOL: The Story of American Public Education: Horace Mann
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/innovators/mann.html
Religious Reform
Religious Groups, Benevolent Organizations, and American Pluralism
http://are.as.wvu.edu/kilsdonk.htm
Revivalism and Benevolence
http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/seven.html
Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nevanrev.htm
Religion and the New Republic (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel07.html
Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening and Rise of Evangelicalism
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma95/finseth/evangel.html
The Second Great Awakening
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/H/1994/ch4_p13.htm
Utopian Communities
The Amana Colonies Story | Amana Colonies
http://www.amanacolonies.com/historical/index.html
Brook Farm History
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/brhistory.html
Path To Utopia: Brook Farm
http://home.insight.rr.com/bookbytes/brookfarm.htm
The Oneida Community - New York History Net
http://www.nyhistory.com/central/oneida.htm
AL: The Utopian Movement and Fourierism
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/utopian.html
The Shakers
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzentr3r/thetruthseekerdmbennett/id9.html
The Shakers
http://www.shakerworkshops.com/karl-mang-the-shakers-another-america.htm#The
Essay on Shaker History
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/shaker/shakers.htm
Temperance
Temperance Movement
http://law.jrank.org/pages/10714/Temperance-Movement.html
Temperance Movement
http://www.bookrags.com/research/temperance-movement-dat-03
Transcendentalism
American Transcendentalism Web
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism
American Transcendentalism
http://thoreau.eserver.org/amertran.html
PAL: American Transcendentalism: A Brief Introduction
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/4intro.html
The Emergence of Transcendentalism
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma95/finseth/trans.html
PAL: 19th C.to 1865 and Transcendentalism
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/chap4.html
Transcendentalism
http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/nine.html
Transcendentalism
http://condor.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/awtech/amertran.html
Women's Rights
PAL:The Women's Rights Movement
http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/suffrage.html
United States Suffrage Movement in the 19th Century
http://www.enotes.com/feminism-literature/united-states-suffrage-movement-19th-century
Women's Suffrage
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsuffrage.htm
Women’s History Month - The History of Women’s Suffrage
http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=
932&display_order=1&mini_id=128
Women Activists
http://eportg.cgc.maricopa.edu/published/h/is/history201-activists/document/1/index-3.3.shtml