Resources selected to supplement HSTY 201 at TC3.

Religion and Reform, 1820-1860

Books in Our Library

• Bound for Canaan: the Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America [E450 .B735 2005] - You can search inside this title at Amazon and at Google Books.
• Burned-over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850 [BR555.N7 C7 1965]
• Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life [PS2506 .C36 1992] - 2 volumes
• Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century [HX654 .F67]
• Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman’s Rights Convention [HQ1413.S67 W45 2004]
• Understanding Emerson: "The American scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance [PS1615.A84 S23 2003]

Note: To find books in the TC3 Library, go to the main Library Gateway page and search the TC3 Library 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."

• Abolitionists
• Antislavery Movements
• Mormon Church, History
• Oneida Community
• Underground Railroad
• Women’s Rights

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Other Media

You can request audio-visual materials from Media Services.

Roots of resistance [videorecording]: a story of the underground railroad [Media E450 .R66 1989]

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 Transcendentalism Web - Texts by and about major figures in American Transcendentalism
• Freedom Bound: the Underground Railroad in Lycoming County
• Oneida Community Collection in Syracuse University Library
• Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection - Over 10,000 pamphlets and leaflets documenting the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels.
• Shaker Manifesto (1871-1899) - Official journal of the Shakers. "Collection of 349 issues (8,136 pages) of Shaker periodical literature held by the Rare Book and Special Collections of the Hamilton College Library."
• Votes for Women Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921

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