Middle School Social Studies
Nineteenth Century American History
Expansion and Reform
Websites for Research on Reform Movements
General Websites:
Pre-Civil War Reform Websites. Digital History. 30 November 2006
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/precivilwar/links.cfm>.
Pre-Civil War Reform. The Gilder Lehrman Institute. 30 November 2006
<http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module6/index.html>.
19th Century Reform Movements. Jefferson Public Schools District Libraries. 29 April
2008.
<http://mail.jsd.k12.ca.us/bf/bflibrary////JSD%20School%20Lib%20Sites/TRP/Refor
m/Reform.htm>
Abolition
Slavery, Abolition, & African American Roles in the Civil War. Teacher Oz’s Kingdom
of History. 27 April 2008
< http://www.teacheroz.com/slavery.htm>
Building the Abolition Movement: Primary Sources. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
27 April 2008
<http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=837>
Abolition. Library of Congress: The African American Mosaic
27 April 2008
< http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html>
Education
Horace Mann. University of Notre Dame. 30 November 2006
<http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/mann.html>.
The Struggle for Public Schools. The Gilder Lehrman Institute. 30 November 2006
<http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module6/intro_pop5.html>.
The Struggle for Public Schools. Digital History. 30 November 2006
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=627>.
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Middle School Social Studies
Nineteenth Century American History
Expansion and Reform
Websites for Research on Reform Movements (cont’d)
Temperance
“Ardent Spirits: The Origins of the American Temperance Movement.” The Journal for
MultiMedia History. The Library Company of Philadelphia. 30 November 2006
<http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/spirits.html>.
Moral Reform. Digital History. 30 November 2006
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=624>.
Temperance. Digital History. 30 November 2006
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=71>.
Religion
Religion and Social Reform. Digital History. 30 November 2006
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us15.cfm>.
Second Great Awakening. From Revolution to Reconstruction. 30 November 2006
<http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch4_p13.htm>.
Prisons
Prison Reform. University of San Diego. 29 April 2008
<http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/soc/prison.html>
Biography of Dorothea Dix. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
30 November 2006 <http://www.dhhs.state.nc.us/mhddsas/DIX/dorothea.html>.
Prison Reform. Jefferson School District. From Encarta. 30 November 2006
<http://www.jsd.k12.ca.us/bf/bflibrary/JSD%20School%20Lib%20Sites/TRP/Reform/Pri
sonReform.htm>.
Social Reform and the Problem of Crime in a Free Society. Digital History. 30 November
2006 <http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=626>.
Women’s Rights
Women’s Rights. 30 November 2006 <http://www.nmwh.org/exhibits/exhibit_frames.html>.
Women’s Rights. Digital History. 30 November 2006
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=630>.
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