Resources
The Second Great Awakening
- Jedediah Burchard's revival sermon (sermon transcript, 1835-1836; and video, 2007)
- Video on Antebellum Newspapers (2007)
- Lucy Stone Video (2007)
- The Infant Christian (children's literature, 1850)
- Hymn to youth about choosing religion over vice (song, 1830)
Camp Meetings
- Camp Meeting (image, 1829)
- The Camp Meeting (image, 1834)
- Advice for running a successful camp meeting (book excerpt, 1855)
- Hymn about camp meetings (song, 1830)
- Description of a camp meeting by an attendee (book excerpt, 1835)
Critics of the Second Great Awakening
- Complaint about how camp meetings waste time (newspaper article, 1831)
- Tricks of Revivalists Exposed (pamphlet, 1831)
- Lyman Beecher on revivals (pamphlet, 1828)
Testimonies and Conversion Stories
- The Dying Jewess (children's literature, 1833)
- Aaron Lummus's Religious Conversion (book excerpt, 1850)
Age of Reform
Anti-Smoking Reform
- Advice to young men not to smoke (book excerpt, 1835)
- The Smokers (image, 1837)
- Cheering Facts in the Anti-Tobacco Reform (broadside, 1859)
Abolition
Children's Literature
- The Slave's Friend (children's literature, 1839)
- A Tribute To Truth (childrens literature book excerpt, 1843)
- The Duty and Safety of Emancipation, A Play (children's literature book excerpt, 1843)
- The Fugitives from Injustice, in Boston, A Poem (children's literature book excerpt, 1843)
- Remember Them that Are in Bonds (children's literature book excerpt, 1843)
Images
- Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770, by Champney (image, ca. 1856)
- Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law (image, 1850)
- Colored Scholars Excluded from School (image, 1839)
Pro-Abolition Voices
- Excerpt from Horrors of Slavery (book excerpt, 1817)
- The Anti-Slavery Almanac (almanac, 1839)
- Am I Not a Man and a Brother (artifact, c. 1790)
- Antislavery Petition (document, c. 1835)
- The Situation in Ohio (letter, 1839)
- How to Agitate the Public Mind (almanac, 1841)
- Dialogue on Slavery, A Play (book excerpt, 1843)
- An Antislavery Convention and Fair (newspaper article, 1840)
- Angelina Grimké Defends Abolitionism (letter, 1838)
- Angelina Grimké's Mother Expresses Her Opinion (letter, 1838)
- Prayer for the Slave (book excerpt, 1843)
- Mary White, Diary Entries on Anti-Slavery Activities (journal entry, 1836)
- The Boston Riot of 1835 (newspaper article, 1835)
Anti-Abolition Voices
- Excerpt from Cotton is King (book excerpt, 1855)
- A Pro-Slavery Letter by S. Trott (newspaper article, 1842)
- Pro-Slavery Letter from the Cincinnati Post and Anti-Abolitionist (newspaper article, 1842)
- Catharine Beecher Opposes Abolitionism (book excerpt, 1837)
- A Declaration of the Sentiments of the People of Hartford (1835)
Songs
- Song of the Abolitionist (song lyrics, 1843)
- Anti-slavery Hymn (song lyrics, 1843)
Moral Reform
- Appeal to women to take part in moral reform (pamphlet, 1836)
- Every Youth's Gazette (children's literature, 1842)
- Constitution of the Worcester Moral Reform Society (broadside, 1836)
- Report of a Female Moral Reform Society (pamphlet, 1835)
- Little Nancy and the Punishment of Greediness (children's literature, 1824)
- Advice to young men on different personalities (book excerpt, 1835)
- Important Discovery, story about temperment (pamphlet, 1833)
- Sunday Observances (book excerpt, 1893)
Temperance
John Gough, Temperance Lecturer
- John Gough's Autobiography (book excerpt, 1845)
- Sketch of John Gough's life (pamphlet, 1878)
- Video of John B. Gough (2007)
Images
- The Progress of Intemperance (image, 1831)
- A Member of the Temperance Society (image, 1833-1834)
- Original Temperance Thermometer (image, 1828)
- Secretiveness (image, 1837)
- Death on the Striped Pig (image, 1839)
- The Tree of Temperance (image, 1849)
- The Victim of Ardent Spirits (image, 1837-1841)
- A Temperance Pledge from Amherst College (broadside, 1834)
- Temperance Almanac 1836 Cover (image, 1836)
- Temperance Almanac 1841 Cover (image, 1841)
- Temperance Almanac 1841 Back Cover (image, 1841)
Songs
- A Temperance Song (song lyrics, 1842)
- Song for Cold Water Army (song lyrics, 1842)
Advice to Men, Women, and Children
- Statistics of Intemperance (book excerpt, 1836)
- Fourth Annual Report, State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts (pamphlet, 1837)
- Stories from The Temperance Reader, Stories (children's literature book excerpt, 1835)
- Temperance for Young Men and Women, Advice (almanac excerpt, 1836)
- Temperance Triumphs In Middlefield (newspaper article, 1829)
- Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Diary Entrees About Leisure (journal entry, 1830)
- Oliver Bolton Describes His Father's Death (letter, 1820)
- An Indian's View of Temperance and Religion (book excerpt, 1834)
- Charles T. Woodman, A Washingtonian (book excerpt, 1843)
- Charles T. Woodman, A Prison Experience (book excerpt, 1843)
- A Women's Temperance Society, History (book excerpt, 1843)
- Mary Livermore's Temperance Work with Children (book excerpt, 1899)
- Sir Richard Rum, A Comic Play about Drinking (book excerpt, 1835)
- The Drinking Habit (book excerpt, 1893)
- The Striped Pig, A Comic History (book excerpt, 1838)
- The Youth's Temperance Lecturer (children's literature, 1841)
- Ten Dialogues on the Effects of Ardent Spirits (children's literature, 1831?)
- Notices from the Massachusetts Spy (newspaper article, 1850)
Women's Rights
- Advice to females on rejecting 'fashion' (book excerpt, 1852)
- Advice to new wives on domestic duties and education (book excerpt, 1838)
- Constitution of the Worcester Female Samaritan Society (broadside, 1827)
- Women's Fumigatory Rights (image, 1849)
- Women's Rights at the Polls (image, 1849)
- Massachusetts Ministers on the Public Role of Women (periodical excerpt, 1837)
- Catharine Beecher on the Duty of American Women (letter, 1837)
- Sarah Grimké Argues for Women's Rights (book excerpts, 1837)
- The First Woman to Address the Massachusetts Senate (letter, 1838)
- A Private Debate About Abolition and Women's Rights (letter, 1837)
Prison and Asylum Reform
- Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts on the conditions of the prisons (1843)
- Excerpted version of the Memorial to the Legislature (1843)
- Protest from Shelbourne in response to Dix's Memorial (newspaper article, 1843)
- Protest from Newburyport in response to Dix's Memorial (newspaper article, 1843)
- Boston Courier editorial against Dix's Memorial (newspaper article, 1843)
- Sumner's defense of Dix's Memorial (newspaper article, 1843)