WOMEN'S RIGHTS & OTHER REFORMS INFO
Check out the links below for more information...it might spark some ideas for additional credit pieces in your history packets. Be sure to look at the AC suggestions/questions for this unit.
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
- A brief history of women's suffrage
- What happened on August 26, 1920
- A page commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention and information about the upcoming 160th anniversary celebration
- Who was Carrie Chapman Catt?
- Info about the M'Clintock House in Seneca Falls
- Writings by and background info on Fanny Fern
- Collection of writings by Lydia Maria Child
- Article on the World Anti-Slavery Convention & Lucretia Mott
- Votes for Women exhibit at the LoC (Collections Connections, or browse by Author, Title, or Subject)
- One Hundred Years toward Suffrage, an overview timeline
- The Online Archive of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writings
- The Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments and attendees at SFC
- The National Park Service keeps a listing of properties associated with the women's rights movement
- A Flash-based trivia game about the history of women's rights in Britain
NOTABLE WOMEN
- An in-depth look at Sojourner Truth, with images and questions, from the LoC
- "Who's that Lady?" interactive game at the LoC
- "Pages from Her Story" interactive timeline of important documents at the LoC
1st & 2nd GREAT AWAKENINGS
- Lecture notes on GA1 at Wake Forest University
- Information about GA2 from University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Asahel Nettleton's biography, and his sermons delivered during GA2
- Religion and the Founding of the New Republic--article at the LoC with info and images
- Brief definition of GA2
- Information about one scholar's research on the FOUR GAs in America
- An 1835 sermon by Charles Finney
HORACE MANN & EDUCATION
- Biography of Horace Mann and information about his impact on education reform
- Info on Horace Mann and other education pioneers from PBS's Only a Teacher documentary series
- Brown University gives a Horace Mann Award each year to a distinguised alumna/alumnus; the school also has an inactive dormitory building named after Mann (a Brown University graduate)
- Antioch College's site for the university president's house--Horace Mann was their first president
- Boston Globe article "Schools vie for honor of being the oldest" 11/27/05
- The founding of the Seven Sisters schools--women's colleges and universities--whose name comes from Greek mythology of the Pleiades
- In the early 20th century, the president of Sears & Roebuck helped fund over 5,000 schools for African Americans in Southern states, now called "Rosenwald Schools"
DOROTHEA DIX
- Background info on Dorothea Dix (with photos)
- Article about Dix and her impact on reforms for the mentally ill
- More Dorothea Dix info at the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
TRANSCENDENTALISM
- The American Transcendentalism Web at Virginia Commonwealth University
- NPR report on Thoreau's Walden (listen to the podcast!)