Background Information
1. Ideas of the FoundersJohn Adams and the Massachusetts Constitution, mass.gov John Kaminski, "They "thought for all of us": The Contradictory Intersections of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson," paper delivered at John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Conference on Libraries, Leadership and Legacy, Boston and Charlottesville, June 2009. Federalist Papers, No. 10 and No. 51, ourdocuments.gov Lance Banning, "James Madison: Federalist," paper delivered at James Madison: Philosopher and Practitioner of Liberal Democracy, a symposium sponsored by the Library of Congress, March 2001. Podcast: Joseph Ellis, "American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson," The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Podcast: James Horton, "Slavery in the Founding Era," The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2. American TranscendentalismGoogle: Timeline of American Transcendentalism Westward Exansion, 1820-1860, Digital History Martin Bickman, "An Overview of American Transcendentalism," Transcendentalist Web Paul P. Reuben, "American Transcendentalism: A Brief Introduction," PAL: Perspectives on American Literature Joel Porte, "A Brief Biographical Sketch of Ralph Waldo Emerson," from Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time (Oxford University Press: 1979). Anne Woodleif on "Self-Reliance," Transcendentalist Web Elizabeth Witherell, with Elizabeth Dubrulle, "Life and Times of Henry D. Thoreau," The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, University of California Santa Barbara Robert Gross, "Quiet War with the State: Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience," Yale Review 91 (October 2005): 1-17. Lawrence Rosenwald, "The Theory, Practice, and Influence of Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau Reader 3. Anti-SlaveryAnti-Slavery Timeline, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Slavery in Massachusetts, Slavery in the North Letter from William Lloyd Garrison to Ebenezer Dole, "How is it with the slave," 7/14/1830, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Reading Frederick Douglass - FYI, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities David W. Blight, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?,” Time Magazine, June 26, 2005. Elizabeth Witherell, with Elizabeth Dubrulle, "Life and Times of Henry D. Thoreau," The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, University of California Santa Barbara
Sandra Harbert
Petrulionis, "Thoreau Transforms His
Journal into 'Slavery in
Massachusetts,'”
Thoreau Reader
The Struggle for Women's Suffrage, Digital History
"Votes for Women": Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920, Library of
Congress Jane Wellman, "The
Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women's
Suffrage," History Now, Issue
Seven (March 2006). "Reconstruction
and the Battle for Women's Suffrage,' Ellen DuBois,
History Now, Issue Seven (March 2006). |
5. Industry & Empire |
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Google Timeline Results for "Industrial Revolution." John Burroughs, "Henry D. Thoreau," The Century Illustrated Magazine, Volume 84 (1882). The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie, PBS Documentary. Andrew Carnegie Speaks, A Recording of "The Gospel of Wealth," History Matters. The Roots of American Economic Growth, Digital History. Browse links for background information. Hamilton Holt, editor, The Life Stories of Undistinuguished Americans: As Told by Themselves, Digital History (Originally published in 1906). Harriet Robinson: "Lowell Mill Girls," Modern History Sourcebook (excerpt). Harriet Hanson Robinson, "The Life of the Early Mill Girls," Journal of Social Science, edited by F.B. Sanborn (1882), 127-140. Industrialization and the Working Class, Digital History. (Browse chapters.) Illinois During the Gilded Age, Founders Library, Northern Illinois University (Provides overview of general developments in the U.S. during this period.) |
6. Commercialization, Mass Communications, and the Cult of Domesticity
American Political Thought,
Part II:
Topics and thesis statements for papers and presentations