Threads of 19th Century American Literature
Transcendentalism Virtual Literature Box Resources:
 The Dial (a collection of writings by Emerson, Thoreau, Bronson Alcott)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=thedial
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/ideas/dialhistory.html
https://www.walden.org/Library/About_Thoreau's_Life_and_Writings:_The_Research_C
ollections/The_Dial
 “Brahma” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175138
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides6/Brahma.html
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/brahma
 a history of Concord, Massachusetts
 biographies, letters, journals, and newspaper articles from the time period.
 biographical information on Kant
 selections of work by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, Bronson
Alcott
 a history of Brook Farm and other utopian communities.
http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/transcendentalism/brook_farm.html
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/5-19th-century-utopian-communities-in-theunited-states
 “Transcendental Wild Oats” by L.M. Alcott
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/alcottlouisamay/a/lma_transcend.htm
http://sandusky.lib.oh.us/adult_programs/lma/lma_read.php
 “Brook Farm” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Life&Times/BiographicalInfo/BrookFarm/Introductio
n.html
http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/835/855681/ch11_a1_d2.pdf
Threads of 19th Century American Literature
Abolitionism Virtual Literature Box Resources:
 excerpts from The Liberator and other works by William Lloyd Garrison
http://www.ushistory.org/us/28a.asp
http://www.accessible-archives.com/collections/the-liberator/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928.html
 excerpts from the writings and speeches of Fredrick Douglass and Maria W. Stewart
http://www.nps.gov/frdo/learn/historyculture/people.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html
 Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass; America’s First Black Woman Political Writer
 An Eyewitness of Slavery in America from Colonial Times to the Civil War
 “The Underground Railroad” by American History Illustrated
 “Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People” by Langston Hughes
http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-tubman-9511430
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
 biographies, letters, diaries, and newspaper articles of the time period
 speeches of Sojourner Truth
http://www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Archive/LegacyOfFaith.htm
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/sojourner_truth.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/educate/truth.html
 history of Nat Turner’s Rebellion and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1826-1850/the-confessions-of-nat-turner/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html
http://www.civilwar.org/150th-anniversary/john-browns-harpersferry.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
Threads of 19th Century American Literature
Feminism Virtual Literature Box Resources:
 biographical information on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott,
Dorthea Dix and other leading feminist.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/stanton/aa_stanton_friends_1.html
http://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/elizabeth-cady-stanton.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/elizabeth-cady-stanton
http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00494.html
 background on women’s colleges founded in the 19th century, such as Troy Female Seminary
( later the Emma Willard School), Mt. Holyoke Seminary, and Hartford Female Seminary.
 Women in the 19th Century by Margaret Fuller
http://www.margaretfuller.org/
http://www.biography.com/people/margaret-fuller-9303889
 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Woman's Rights Convention, Held at Seneca
Falls, 19-20 July 1848
http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/seneca.html
 Massachusetts legislature address by the Grimke sisters (1830)
 New York’s “Married Women’s Property Act” (1848)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/property_law.html
 prints of painting by Mary Cassatt
 works of Louis May Alcott
 “This is My Letter to the World” by Emily Dickinson
 “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin
 additional biographies, letters, diaries, and newspapers of the time period
Threads of 19th Century American Literature
Industrialism Virtual Literature Box Resources:
 biographies or major inventors and entrepreneurs, including Samuel Morse, Thomas Edison,
Andrew Carnegie, Charles Goodyear, Alexander Graham Bell, John D, Rockefeller, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, and others.
 biographies of major labor leaders of the period, including Uriah S. Stephens, Eugene V.
Dabs, and Samuel Gompers.
 excerpts from the writing of the “muckruckers” Ida M. Tarbell, Frank Norris, Gustavus
Myers, Upton Sinclair, and Ray Stannard Baker
 biography of Theodore Roosevelt
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/site/c.elKSIdOWIiJ8H/b.8090799/k.C003/Home.htm
 additional biographies, letters, diaries, and newspapers of the time period
 histories of the Pullman Strike (1893) and the Haymarket Affair (1886)
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1994/ihy941208.html
http://www.illinoislaborhistory.org/haymarket/the-story-of-the-haymarket-affair.html
 photographs of factories and workers; photographs by Louis Hines
 Autobiography of Lucy Larkham
 “Paradise for Bachelors” by Herman Melville