Religion

Romance and Reform

The American Renaissance

Harriet Beecher Stowe

ASSIGNMENTS

Primary Sources

1804 - Ohio Black Code

1807 - Account of a Georgia Camp Meeting

1809: William Ellery Channing: The Moral Argument against Calvinism

1825 - 26: Documents pertaining to the New Harmony Community

1828 - Lyman Beecher: Six Sermons on Intemperance.

1830 - Conversion of Charles Grandison Finney

	1824 - 42 Revival Lectures of Charles Grandison Finney
	----- Charles Grandison Finney: Sermons on Important Subjects
	1833 - Covenant of the Oberlin Colony
	1833 - Prospectus for the Oberlin Collegian Institute
	1835 - Constitution of the Oberlin Anti-slavery Society
	1835 - J. J. Shipherd, Pastoral Letter
	1837 - Oberlin through the Eyes of an Expelled Student
	1837 - Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn
	1838 - Ralph Waldo Emerson: Address to Harvard Divinity School
	1838 - A Lecture on the Importance of Education
	1859 - Letter of John A. Copeland before his hanging
	----- Joseph Smith: First Vision
	----- Joseph Smith: Persecution
	1823 Joseph Smith: Appearance of the Angel Maroni
	----- Joseph Smith: The Sacred Record
	----- Joseph Smith: The Priesthood Restored
	1839 - Reverend M'llvaine Denounces Intemperance
	1840 - William Ellery Channing: On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
	1841 - Catharine Beecher: Domestic Economy for the use of Young Ladies at Home or at School.
	1841 - Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self Reliance
	1842 - Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lecture on Transcendentalism
	1843 - Dorothea Dix Speaks Out for Insane Persons
	1844 - Photograph of Joseph Smith
	1848: Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments
	1849 - Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
	1850: The Drunkard's Home
	1850: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Only a Year
	1851: Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?
	1851: Catharine Beecher: The True Remedy for the Wrongs of Women
	1854: Alice Hawthorne: What is Home without a Mother?
	1855: Walt Whitman: Preface to Leaves of Grass
	1857: Page from the McGuffey Reader
	Web Links

	What is Transcendentalism?
	The American Renaissance
	Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening
	Religion in the New Republic: The Second Great Awakening
	Evangelicalism as a Social Movement
	Godey's Lady's Book: 1852 - 1855
	Hudson River School of Painting (1)
	Hudson River School of Painting (2)
	MAP - The Mormon Trek
	The Oneida Community
	The Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
	The Humor of Edgar Allen Poe
	Walt Whitman

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