American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 12: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

Bibliography

Books

Antebellum Literature and Popular Culture. Nina Baym, Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-1870 (1978). Carl Bode, The American Lyceum: Town Meeting of the Mind (1968). Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815--1865 (1936). Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995). Vincent Buranelli, Edgar Allan Poe (1977). Scott E. Casper, Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1999). Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (1977). David Grimsted, Melodrama Unveiled: American Theater and Culture, 1800--1850 (1968). Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P.T. Barnum (1973). Mary Kelley, The Limits of Sisterhood (1988). Mary Kupiec Cayton, Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800--1845 (1989). David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman (1963). Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (1993). Kenneth S. Lynn, Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor (1972). Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden (1964). F.O. Matthiessen, American Renaissance (1941). Henry F. May, The Enlightenment in America (1976). James Meellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time (1980). Vernon L. Parrington, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800--1860 (1927). David Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (1988); Walt Whitman's America (1995). Henry Nash Smith, Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers (1978). Robert C. Toll, Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America (1974). Larzer Ziff, Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America (1981).

Social Philosophies and Utopias. Robert H. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (1994). Gay Wilson Allen, Waldo Emerson (1981). Arthur Bestor, Backwoods Utopias: The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663--1829 (1950). P.F. Boller, Jr., American Transcendentalism, 1830--1860: An Intellectual Inquiry (1974). Priscilla Brewer, Shaker Communities and Shaker Lives (1986). Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My Name: The Life of Joseph Smith (1945). John L. Brooke, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 (1994). Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright, ed., Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Context. (1999). Maren L. Carden, Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern Corporation (1971). Henry Steele Commager, Theodore Parker (1936). Paul Conkin, The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America (1995). Walter Conser Jr., God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in Antebellum America (1993). Michael Fellman, The Unbounded Frame: Freedom and Community in Nineteenth-Century America (1973). Lawrence Foster, Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community (1984); Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons (1991). Klaus J. Hansen, Quest for Empire (1967). J.F.C. Harrison, Quest for the New Moral World: Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America (1969). Carol Kolmerten, Women in Utopia (1990). Richard Lebeaux, Young Man Thoreau (1977). Perry Miller, The Transcendentalists (1950); The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War (1966). Raymond Muncy, Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities (1973). Robert Richardson, Jr., Emerson (1995). Ann Rose, Transcendentalism as a Social Movement (1981). Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Orestes A. Brownson: A Pilgrim's Progress (1939). Wallace Stegner, The Gathering of Zion (1964). R.D. Thomas, The Man Who Would Be Perfect: John Humphrey Noyes and the Utopian Impulse (1977).

Antebellum Religion and Reform. Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990). Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America (1997). C.C. Cole, Jr., The Social Ideas of the Northern Evangelists, 1826--1860 (1954). Whitney R. Cross, The Burned-Over District (1950). James D. Davies, Phrenology: Fad and Science (1955). Estelle Freedman, Their Sister's Keepers: Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830--1930 (1981). Gerald W. Grob, Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 (1973). Nathan O. Hatch, The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). Charles A. Johnson, The Frontier Camp Meeting (1955). Paul Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (1978). W. David Lewis, From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary (1965). Robert Mennel, Thorns and Thistles (1973). William G. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform (1978). Stephen L. Nissenbaum, Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform (1980). Richard Rabionwitz, The Spiritual Self in Everyday Life (1989). W.J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic (1979). Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (1962). David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum (1971). Timothy L. Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform in Mid-Nineteenth Century America (1957). William W. Sweet, Revivalism in America (1949). Alice Felt Tyler, Freedom's Ferment (1944). Ian R. Tyrrell, Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America, 1800--1860 (1979). Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815--1860 (1978).

Education. Carl Bode, The American Lyceum (1956). Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience (1980). Michael Katz, The Irony of Early School Reform (1968). Jonathan Messerli, Horace Mann (1972). Paul Monroe, The Founding of the American Public School System (1949). Stanley K. Schultz, The Culture Factory: Boston's Public Schools, 1789--1860 (1973). Robert Trennert, Alternatives to Extinction: Federal Indian Policy and the Beginning of the Reservation System (1975).

Feminism. Margaret H. Bacon, Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America (1986). Lois Banner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1980). Kathleen Barry, Susan B. Anthony (1988). Elizabeth Ann Bartlett, Liberty, Equality, Sorority (1994). Barbara J. Berg, The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism: The Woman and the City (1977). Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (1994). Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780--1835 (1977). Carl Degler, At Odds, Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1980). Ellen C. Du Bois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Woman's Movement in America, 1848--1860 (1978). Barbara Leslie Epstein, The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America (1981). Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle, rev. ed. (1975). Stephen M. Frank, Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North. (1998). Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1990). Elisabeth Griffith, In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1984). Nancy A. Hewitt, Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822--1872 (1988). Nancy Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. (1998). Carolyn Karcher, The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (1994). Catherine E. Kelly, In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century (1999). Carolyn J. Lawes, Women and Reform in a New England Community 1813-1860 (2000). Louise Michele Newman, White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States (1999). William L. O'Neill, Everyone Was Brave: The Rise and Fall of Feminism in the United States (1970). Stacey M. Robertson, Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist (2000). Anne Firor Scott, Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History (1991). Kathryn K. Sklar, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973). Jean Fagan Yellin, ed. The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America (1994).

Antislavery and Abolitionism. Richard H. Abbott, Cotton and Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854--1868 (1991). Robert Abzug, Theodore Dwight Weld (1980). G.H. Barnes, The Antislavery Impulse (1933). Irving Bartlett, Wendell Phillips (1962). Arna Bontemps, Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass (1971). David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770--1823 (1975). M.L. Dillon, The Abolitionists (1974). Martin Duberman, ed., The Anti-Slavery Vanguard (1965). David F. Ericson, The Debate over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America (2000). Louis Filler, The Crusade Against Slavery (1960). Betty Fladeland, James Gillespie Birney (1955). George Frederickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817--1914 (1971). Lawrence J. Friedman, Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism (1982). Paul Goodman, Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality (1998). Kathryn Grover, The Fugitive's Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts (2001). Stanley Harrold, The Abolitionists and the South, 1831-1861 (1995). Blanche G. Hersh, Slavery of Sex: Feminist Abolitionists in America (1978). Nathan Huggins, Slave and Citizen (1980). Julie Roy Jeffrey, The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement (1998). Aileen Kraditor, Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834--1850 (1967). Alan Kraut, ed., Crusaders and Compromisers (1983). Gerda Lerner, The Grimk, Sisters of South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery (1967). William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass (1991). John McKivigan, The War Against Proslavery Religion (1984). John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold, ed., Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (1999). Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860 (1998). William Lee Miller, Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress (1996). William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease, They Would Be Free (1974). Lewis Perry, Radical Abolitionism: Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought (1973). Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman, eds., Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists (1979). Benjamin Quarles, Black Abolitionists (1969). Leonard L. Richards, "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America (1970). Philip J. Schwarz, Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation. (2001). Gerald Sorin, Abolitionism (1972); Wendell Phillips (1987). James Brewer Stewart, Holy Warriors (1976). Douglas M. Strong, Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy (1999). John L. Thomas, The Liberator (1963). Peter F. Walker, Moral Choices: Memory, Desire, and Imagination in Nineteenth Century Abolition (1978). Ronald G. Walters, The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionists After 1830 (1976). Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery (1969). Jean Fagan Yellin, The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture (1989).

Films

The Abolitionists (1987). The American Story, No. 9: Social Reform (1985). Black Americans of Achievement, No. 8: Sojourner Truth. Black Americans of Achievement, No. 9: Harriet Tubman. Frederick Douglass - An American Life (1985). Rebel Hearts (1995). Reforming the Republic. The Second Great Awakening (1994).Thoreau's Walden. Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971).