LibGuides: American History Library Guide: American Politics & Reform

Key Search Terms

Possible key words, terms to use when searching databases:

Abolitionist movement United States

Quakers

Frederick Douglass

William Lloyd Garrison

Sojourner Truth

American Anti-Slavery Society

Women's rights movement United States

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott

Seneca Falls Convention

Susan B Anthony

Lucy Stone

Slavery and the Meetinghouse by Ryan P. Jordan
ISBN: 9780253348609
Publication Date: 2007-03-28
The Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma, 1820-1865
Slavery on Trial by Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Call Number: KF4545.S5 -- D45 2007eb
ISBN: 9780807830864
Publication Date: 2007-05-29

Living with History / Making Social Change by Gerda Lerner
ISBN: 9780807832936
Publication Date: 2009-03-31
Chapter 4 explains the meaning of Seneca Falls Convention.

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Search for information in online reference books about animals, poetry, short stories, child devlopment, Islam, psychology, and American religions.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Online streaming video collection that contains thousands of videos.

Library of Congress, American History Collection
"These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories. The Library's online content represents only a small percentage of its physical holdings." (LOC 2015).
NC ECHO
NC ECHO searches across digital collections at a variety of cultural heritage institutions around North Carolina. NC ECHO is a first step for users interested in exploring North Carolina's diverse collections of historic photos, documents, books, family histories, maps, and much more.

The Architecture of Madness by Carla Yanni
Call Number: RC445 -- .Y36 2007eb
ISBN: 9780816649396
Publication Date: 2007-04-19
This work covers the history of asylum/mental illness institiutions.
Words Made Flesh by R. A. R. Edwards
ISBN: 9780814722435
Publication Date: 2012-03-26
Contains information regarding Horace Mann

Dorothea Dix- biography
Lady and the President: The Letters of Dorothea Dix and Millard Fillmore
"Dorothea Lynde Dix (19-2-87), an indefatigable advocate for better treatment of the insane in nineteenth-century America, carried on a correspondence with President Millard Fillmore, whose aid she had enlisted in her ultimately unsuccessful effort to channel funds from the sale of federal land to the support of the mentally ill."

North American Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new window
NCLIVE Resource
North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.

The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Failure Is Impossible Video
Ken Burns’s eye-opening profile of the women’s suffrage movement, this program depicts the later years of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.