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Differing Perspectives: Social Movements and Social Change
Throughout American history, different groups of people, whether organized by race, class, gender, age, profession, or other criteria, have worked to effect change in the American economy, politics, and society. These movements range from the Pennsylvania farmers in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, to antebellum reformers such as abolitionists and women's rights activists, to the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Through "Differing Perspectives," we are able to learn the historic context of these movements, the perspectives of different groups of participants and opponents, and the reasons for success or failure.
- Women Working, 1870-1930, Harvard University Library
Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection currently contains 2,396 books and pamphlets, 1,075 photographs, and 5,000 pages from manuscript collections.
- American Labor Studies Center
The American Labor Studies Center, located in Troy, NY, provides access to a variety of educational resources through this site. There is easy access to a number of primary sources including photographs and music. The site also contains over 20 lesson plans, an interactive timeline of labor history, a condensed history of American labor and biographies of the principle personalities.
- American Transcendentalism
One of the most extensive online resources for information about transcendentalism. The material is weighted heavily toward secondary sources.
- An American Family: The Beecher Tradition
Based on an exhibit at the Newman Library at Baruch College, the City University of New York, this website uses the Beecher family to illustrate social change and reform in the 19th century. Digitized primary sources include portraits, letters, pamphlets, and engravings.
- Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s
From the Ohio State University Department of History, this site focuses on four themes: The New Woman, the Scopes Trail, Anti-Immigration and the KKK, and Prohibition.
- Home Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth Century Ohio, Library of Congress
This site focuses on 19th century family life in Cincinnati, OH. There are five sections including Family Life, Singing Schools, Religion, Rural Values, Temperance, Parlor Music, and Minstrel Songs. Each section allows access to primary source material in visual and audio formats and comes complete with a history of the city and society as well as background history for each object/source, bibliographies, and biographies of people integral in the shaping of the period.
- The Oneida Community Collection
The Syracuse University library has digitized many of its primary sources on the Oneida Community. The site includes a photograph collection and digitizations of Oneida community founder John Humphrey Noyes's writings.
- Women and Social Movements in the US, 1775-2000
This site is sponsored by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at SUNY Binghamton. It includes well-indexed and easily searchable digitized primary documents and a "teacher's corner" with lesson ideas, DBQ's, and other resources.
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