Turning Point in US History- Jami Forrester
Newspaper and Magazine Sources
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New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore important historical events, cultural shifts, and societal changes through the original pages of The New York Times.
Find: digitized full pages and articles from every issue published between 1851 and 2015—including headlines, photos, advertisements, obituaries, comics, and political cartoons.
Great for: completing projects on U.S. history, journalism, and media studies, and conducting archival research. -
New York TimesMachine This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore historical issues of The New York Times in their original print format.
Find: full page images from 1851–2002, including headlines, photos, advertisements, and complete layouts.
Great for: conducting archival research, analyzing primary sources, and completing projects in U.S. history, journalism, or cultural analysis. -
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Use this to: read reliable, full-text news and transcripts from around the world.
Find: articles from major news sources such as The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Washington Post, as well as broadcast news transcripts, and wire updates.
Great for: researching any current events topic, staying informed on regional and national news, comparing media coverage, and analyzing journalistic reporting styles. -
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore American history and culture through digitized periodicals from the late 17th to early 20th centuries.
Find: full-page digitized images of original periodicals published between 1684 and 1912, providing first-hand accounts of historical events on topics such as social life, industry, politics, religion, literature, science, agriculture, women's issues, and more.
Great for: analyzing primary sources for U.S. history papers, researching American culture and society through original publications, exploring specific historical events, or studying various aspects of American life through original advertisements, essays, and news.
Research Databases which include Academic Journals
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Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Use this to: research biographies of notable individuals from various fields and time periods.
Find: biographical entries covering international figures, with curated pages that include reference content, articles from academic journals, magazines and news, and historical images, videos, and audio clips.
Great for: finding comprehensive information for biographical or profile essays, researching historical figures for history projects, analyzing the lives of artists or influential people, or gathering details for presentations across various disciplines. -
U.S. History (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore key events, eras, and figures in U.S. history with curated background and primary source materials.
Find: articles, essays, speeches, letters, historical images, videos, and statistics—covering U.S. history from early colonization to today, all presented with overviews to give you background information.
Great for: researching history paper topics, analyzing primary sources for civics assignments, or understanding different perspectives on historical events. -
American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection This link opens in a new window
Use this to: explore American history and culture through digitized periodicals from the late 17th to early 20th centuries.
Find: full-page digitized images of original periodicals published between 1684 and 1912, providing first-hand accounts of historical events on topics such as social life, industry, politics, religion, literature, science, agriculture, women's issues, and more.
Great for: analyzing primary sources for U.S. history papers, researching American culture and society through original publications, exploring specific historical events, or studying various aspects of American life through original advertisements, essays, and news.
Books
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Civil War 100
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ISBN: 080651955XPublication Date: 1998-06-01Abraham Lincoln (1), Ulysses S. Grant (2), Robert E. Lee (4), Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (20)... The Civil War's legendary figures are among the most famous in American history. The Civil War 100, the newest addition into the Citadel Press "100" series, offers a provocative discussion of the most significant persons in America's bloodiest war. The Civil War altered the nation's political, social, and cultural landscape. Government more than ever before became directly involved in the lives of its citizens. The stunning photographs of Matthew Brady (34) forever changed the way the American public saw war; much of the finest poetry of Walt Whitman (69) stemmed from his wartime observations. Slavery was abolished and the rights of male citizens, regardless of color, were constitutionally guaranteed. Women broke barriers into the public sphere by becoming nurses and challenging existing assumptions about their "place". The war produced an intriguing mix of soldiers, sailors, politicians, reformers, writers, bankers, and activists. Some were heroes and others rogues. Many, such as William T. Sherman (3), leader of the march through Georgia, or John Brown (14), whose raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry helped spark the war, will be familiar. But other less famous persons-like Justin Morrill (83), founder of the nation's land-grant colleges; Gail Borden (96), developer of condensed milk; or May ("Mother") Bickerdyke (90), the only woman the irascible Sherman allowed into his army's hospitals -- will alternately delight and frustrate with their successes and failures. Who was more important? Grant or Lee? Would a president other than Jefferson Davis (5) have better served theConfederacy? The answers to these and other questions will challenge, surprise, and entertain. Designed to provoke and enlighten, The Civil War 100 helps to bring the men, women, and issues of America's greatest conflict to life. -
Moses
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ISBN: 9780786851751Publication Date: 2006-09-01This poetic book is a resounding tribute to Tubman's strength, humility, and devotion. With proper reverence, Weatherford and Nelson do justice to the woman who, long ago, earned over and over the name Moses. -
Dorothea Dix
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ISBN: 0674214889Publication Date: 1998-10-30Dorothea Dix was the most politically engaged woman of her generation, which was itself a remarkable tapestry of activists. An influential lobbyist as well as a paragon of the doctrine of female benevolence, she vividly illustrated the complexities of the "separate spheres" of politics and femininity. Her greatest legislative initiative, a campaign for federal land grants to endow state mental hospitals, assumed a central role in the public land controversies that intertwined with the slavery issues in Congress following the Mexican War. The passage of this legislation in 1854, and its subsequent veto by President Pierce, touched off the most protracted effort to override a veto that had yet taken place. An activist who disdained the women's rights and antislavery movements, Dix, an old-line Whig, sought to promote national harmony and became the only New England social reformer to work successfully in the lower South right up to the eve of secession. When war broke out, she sought to achieve as Superintendent of Women Nurses the sort of cultural authority she had seen Florence Nightingale win in the same role during the Crimean War. The disastrous failure of one of the most widely admired heroines in the nation provides a dramatic measure of the transformations of northern values during the war. -
Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860
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ISBN: 0813121310Publication Date: 1999-12-22Interpretations of women in the antebellum period have long dwelt upon the notion of public versus private gender spheres. As part of the ongoing reevaluation of the prehistory of the women's movement, Carolyn Lawes challenges this paradigm and the primacy of class motivation. She studies the women of antebellum Worcester, Massachusetts, discovering that whatever their economic background, women there publicly worked to remake and improve their community in their own image. Lawes analyzes the organized social activism of the mostly middle-class, urban, white women of Worcester and finds that they were at the center of community life and leadership. Drawing on rich local history collections, Lawes weaves together information from city and state documents, court cases, medical records, church collections, newspapers, and diaries and letters to create a portrait of a group of women for whom constant personal and social change was the norm. Throughout Women and Reform in a New England Community, conventional women make seemingly unconventional choices. A wealthy Worcester matron helped spark a women-led rebellion against ministerial authority in the town's orthodox Calvinist church. Similarly, a close look at the town's sewing circles reveals that they were vehicles for political exchange as well as social gatherings that included men but intentionally restricted them to a subordinate role. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the women of Worcester had taken up explicitly political and social causes, such as an orphan asylum they founded, funded, and directed. Lawes argues that economic and personal instability rather than a desire for social control motivated women, even relatively privileged ones, into social activism. She concludes that the local activism of the women of Worcester stimulated, and was stimulated by, their interest in the first two national women's rights conventions, held in Worcester in 1850 and 1851. Far from being marginalized from the vital economic, social, and political issues of their day, the women of this antebellum New England community insisted upon being active and ongoing participants in the debates and decisions of their society and nation.
