U.S. History
1814 — 1850
pathfinder
BOOKS — WEBSITES — PRIMARY SOURCES — “A QUESTION” — & MORE
pathfinder n 1 : one that discovers a way; esp : one that explores untraversed or unfrequented regions to mark out a new path TRAILBLAZER
books ‘n’ sites on the SECOND GREAT AWAKENING & TRANSCENDENTALISM
REF 200 Que Encyclopedia of American Religious History, 2 vols. by Edward L. Queen II et al.
200.9 Gau Religious History of America, by E. S. Gaustad and L. E. Schmidt
Thesis on religious movements in early 19th century http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA95/finseth/thesis.html
George Mason University and CUNY-Graduate Center HistoryMatters website http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6518/
HistoryMatters link to speech by Charles G. Finney http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6374
Shepherd University site on the transcendentalist movement http://www.shepherd.edu/transweb/transcendentalistspiritwebquestnew.htm
University of Minnesota Media History Project timeline of developments in cultural history http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/1810s.html
Virginia Commonwealth site on transcendentalism http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/
books ‘n’ sites on the ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT & NAT TURNER
REF 973 Afr African-American History, edited by Jack Salzman
921 Tur Nat Turner, by Terry Brisson
921 Tur Nat Turner & the Southampton Revolt of 1831, by Martin Goldman
PBS African-American World Timeline: Early Days and Slavery (1400s-1865) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/early_01.html
University of Nebraska-Lincoln site with links to primary source documents on slave rebellions. http://www.unl.edu/Price/dickinson/rebellions.html
Indiana University site on the abolitionist movement, with a brief history http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu
University of Virginia site with WPA slave narratives http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
books ‘n’ sites on WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
REF 303.61 Pro Protest, Power and Change: an encyclopedia of nonviolent action from ACT-UP to women’s suffrage
305.42 Fie Two Paths to Women’s Equality, by Jane Zollinger Giele
324.6 Fro Women’s Suffrage in America, by Elizabeth Frost-Knappman
University of Massachusetts-Lowell site with links to the National Women’s History Museum, Library of Congress, primary source documents and more
http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/SenecaFalls.htm
Women and the World Anti-Slavery Conventions of 1840 and 1843 website from Virginia Tech’s Dept. of English http://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/3044main/suffragettes.html
Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the World Anti-Slavery Conv. http://www.alief.isd.tenet.edu/instructional/social-studies/TaksTools/Reform/Stanton%20placard.pdf
books ‘n’ sites on UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES
Eastern Connecticut State University list of utopian communities currently existing as historical sites
with links to the sites own homepages. Each group maintains a homepage with info on history of the
community, tours, gift shops and other information. http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/utopia.htm
Library of Congress, American Memory Project http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
books ‘n’ sites on “THE AMERICAN SYSTEM”
REF 973 Ame American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860, edited by Peter C. Maneall
973.5 Col Andrew Jackson’s America, 1824- 1850 by Christopher & James Lincoln Collier
973.5 Hak Liberty for All? by Joy Hakim
Houghton Mifflin Publishing Co. site with info on Henry Clay and American System
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_017400_clayhenry.htm
books ‘n’ sites on COTTON & ELI WHITNEY
921 Whi World of Eli Whitney, by Jeannette Mirsky and Allan Nevine
Bryant University in Rhode Island, site about cotton economy of pre-Civil War U.S. http://web.bryant.edu/~history/h364proj/sprg_01/solomon/index.htm
MIT inventor directory http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html
a PRIMARY SOURCE RESOURCE for all topics
REF 973.08 Ann Annals of America, 22 vols.
The Annals of America is a collection of writings and speeches given by people who figured in to the history of the United States. Use the index to identify which volume of the collection contains information related to the person, place or event you are studying.
print ‘n’ online PERIODICALS
check ProQuest database at the library or from home
Also, remember to use the King County Library System databases. All you need is your library card number.
some VIDEO sources
American Social History Project documentaries http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/documentaries.html
The early 19th century witnessed the continuation of forced removal and killing of indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands as Euro-American settlers, missionaries and U.S. military forces and explorers ventured West. During this period the U.S. government began the practice of signing — and breaking — treaties with Indian tribes. To what extent do these types of practices continue to exist in U.S. political and economic relations with native peoples around the world?
REF 970.004 Chr Chronology of Native North American History
REF 970.004 Cha Native America, by Duane Champagne
Library of Congress, chronological list of the confiscations of Indian lands from 1784 to 1894 http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/llss_dates.html
Center for World Indigenous Studies http://www.cwis.org/index.htm
Dakota – Lakota – Nakota Human Rights Advocacy Coalition website page on International Indigenous Rights http://www.dlncoalition.org/related_issues/international_indigenous_rights.htm
Global Policy Forum article “Latin American Indigenous Movements in the Context of Globalization”
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/special/2004/1011indigenous.htm
Amnesty International report on http://www.amnestyusa.org/justearth/indonesia.html
Mangrove Action Project on shrimp aquaculture which deprives local communities of resources so that U.S. markets can have ready supply of shrimp
http://www.earthisland.org/map/aqclt.htm
“A QUESTION” is a feature of library pathfinders at Mount Si High School. They are readings recommended to support critical reflection on the subjects we are studying by asking challenging questions.
PATHFINDER prepared for Mount Si High School A.P. history classes by the school’s library, November 2004.
IMAGE CREDITS: frontispiece of cotton gin from Let My People Go: African Americans, 1804-1860, by Deborah Gray White. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, p.16. Hoffy lithograph from Women’s Suffrage in America: an eyewitness history, by Elizabeth Frost & Kathryn Cullen-DuPont. NY: Facts on File, 1992, p.77
webpage mounted 11/05/04
