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Chapter 12 - An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform

Images and Maps

Ardent Spirits: The Origins of the American Temperance Movement
(This site includes a nice essay)

Mormon History

 

Primary Sources

Alexis de Tocqueville and Religion

Godey's Ladies Book Online

Sermons From the Second Great Awakening

Available Writings by Charles G. Finney

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Complete Poems: Emily Dickinson

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Rappaccini’s Daughter Volume X, Part 1

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
(Includes many of his essays)

The Thoreau Reader

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Fuller, Margare: Life without and life within

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men

The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville: The Confidence Man

Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

Edgar Allan Poe: Tales, Sketches and Selected Criticism

The Work of Edgar Allan Poe

 

Secondary Sources

"Tales of the Early Republic"
(There are many primary sources mixed in with other information here)

Donald Scott, "Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening"

LDS Church History

Shaker Articles

Constance Rynder "All Men and Women are Created Equal"

 

 

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