Resources selected to supplement HSTY 201 at TC3.

Chapter 9: Economic Transformation, 1820-1860

Books in Our Library

• Drunkard’s Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery [HV5068 .D78 1999]
• From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor In the United States [HD8066 .M86 2001]
• From Working Girl to Working Mother: the Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980 [HD6095 .W39 1985]
• Hard At Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940 [GV53 .H28 1992]
• Image of the American City in Popular Literature, 1820-1870 [PS217.C57 S56]
• Inhuman Bondage: the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World [E441 .D2495 2006]
• Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention [HQ1413.S67 W45 2004]
• Shifting Fortunes: the Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present [HD8066 .N37 1997]
• Slavery in the Cities; the South, 1820-1860 [E443 .W3]
• Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 [HE203 [T348 1968]
• Work in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society [REF HD8066 .W637 2003]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and search the TC3 Catalog. Use the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat to find books in other libraries which you can request through the TC3 Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Try these suggested subject headings to find books on this topic in the TC3 Library Catalog as well as in the SUNY Union Catalog and WorldCat. To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and select "TC3 Catalog."

• American Literature, 19th Century, History and Criticism
• Antislavery Movements, United States, History
• Cities and Towns, Southern States
• Labor, United States, History
• Leisure, Social Aspects, United States, History, Congresses
• Temperance
• Transportation, United States, History
• Women, Employment, United States, History
• Woman’s Rights Convention (1st : 1848 : Seneca Falls, N.Y.)
• Working class, United States, Encyclopedias
• Working class, United States, History

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Other Media

You can request materials from media services, which is located directly across from the library.

• Sins of our mothers [videorecording]: the story of Emeline [Media F29.F4 S56 1988] - "Presents the true story of Emeline Gurney, on which Judith Rossner’s novel Emmeline is based. At 13, Emeline was sent by her parents from Fayette, Maine to live and work in the mills at Lowell, Mass. Within a year she had been seduced, given birth to an illegitimate son, given him to strangers and returned to her parents’ home in Maine. Many years later she marries a man from Massachusetts, who is later revealed to be her illegimate son. Using town and church records and interviews with townspeople who knew her, the program reveals attitudes about community, morality and social conditions in 19th century New England."

History Journals in Electronic Format

History-related electronic journals are available to TC3 students and staff in our electronic databases and in our list of full-text electronic journals by title & Subject.

Web Resources

• American Women's History: a Research Guide- Presents a timeline and links to specific historical events from pertinent online sources, as well as a guide to research sources for that period.
• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music ca. 1820 - 1860- Part of the American Memory Project it contains some 15,000 plus sheets of registered sheet music. Included in its vast array are popular songs from the time period, arias, scores for piano, as well sacred and secular music.

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