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Antebellum America
Porfolio 2--Ms Cho
Research Essay--Original Intent
To begin your research try:
History Study Center- It includes reference articles, primary documents, journal articles and websites on all of the above topics. In addition, you can get topic overviews by searching the "study units" file. From home you must use a login and password. A hard copy of database logins and passwords can be obtained from the library, or you can access them from the BMS Community site.
Document Analysis--Democracy in America
Books:
Mill, John Stuart. The philosophy of John Stuart Mill: ethical, political, and religious. (192 M)
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. (320 D)
Journal Articles:
Think Again: DemocracyThomas Carothers Foreign Policy, No. 107. (Summer, 1997), pp. 11-18.
Shall We Teach Constitutional Government or Democracy? Harry L. Kriner Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 21, No. 3, An All Editorial Issue. (Nov., 1943), pp. 158-159.
Herald of the World's Democratic Revolt Saul K. Padover American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 3. (Apr., 1960), pp.
De Tocqueville on Equality: A Discourse on Intellectual StyleHerbert L. Costner The Pacific Sociological Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, American Society at the Bicentennial: Revising Our Understanding. (Oct., 1976), pp. 411-430.
Why Could Tocqueville Predict so Well? Roger Boesche Political Theory, Vol. 11, No. 1. (Feb., 1983), pp. 79-103.
Document Analysis--
As it is part of your assignment to find sources on your own, JSTOR articles are not included in this pathfinder. The library suggests that you go to "Advanced Search" and enter Jacksonian, Constitution, or Jacksonian, political democracy, etc. There are many good resources available there.
Books
Rozwenc, Edwin Charles. The meaning of Jacksonian democracy. (353 R)
Andrist, Ralph K. Andrew Jackson, soldier and statesman (921 Jackson)
The Cherokee removal: a brief history with documents. (970.5 C)
Bowers, Claude Gernade. Jefferson and Hamilton: the struggle for democracy in America. (973.4 B)
Van Deusen, Glyndon G. The Jacksonian era, 1828-1848. (973.5 V)
Ward, John William. Andrew Jackson, symbol for an age. (973.56 W)
Research Essay - Labor Activity in the Lowell Mills
"A Week in the Mill" - three excerpt from "The Lowell Offering"
Questions for Pondering about the Lowell Mills Girls
Eisler, Benita. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845) 2 copies (305 E/974.44 L)
Cott, Nancy G. History of Women in the United States: Industrial Wage Work, (305.48 H v.7), part 1 Munich: K.G. Saur, 1993. See the ff. chapters: "Women, Work, and the Family: Female Operatives in the Lowell Mills, 1830-1860, by Thomas Dublin, and "Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills: 'The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us", by Thomas Dublin.
Journal Articles: Note that JStor articles are available at home, but you will have to login and provide password. The articles offered below are but a sampling of what may be found.
Mill Town on the Merrimack Louis Taylor Merrill The New England Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1. (Mar., 1946), pp. 19-31.
Document Analysis - Manifest Destiny
Books:
Farragher, Johnny and Christice Stansell. "Women and Their Families on the Oregon Trail" (Xeroxed copies on reserve); available in History of Women in the United States: Working on the Land (305.48 H v.6), pt.1, p. 241-257.
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Frontier Women: the Tans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880. (301.41 J)
Riley, Glenda. Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915. (978 R)
Schlissel, Lillian. Far from Home: Families of the Westward Journey. (978 S)
Stratton, Joanna L. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. (305.42 S)
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey. (978 W)
Journal Articles: Note that JStor articles are available at home, but you will have to login and provide password. The articles offered below are but a sampling of what may be found. At home, use http://www.jstor.org/logon/ to access JStor.
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850-1860 Richard H. Steckel The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 48, No. 2, The Tasks of Economic History. (Jun., 1988), pp. 333-345.
Websites:
The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narratives.
Women of the West and Everyday Life Along the Trail
Research Essay--Original Intent
As it is part of your assignment to find sources on your own, JSTOR articles are not included in this pathfinder. The library suggests that you go to "Advanced Search" and enter constitutional, intent and/or constitutional, interpretation. There are many good resources available there
Books
Friedrich, Carl J. Constitutional government and democracy. (342 F)
Amar, Akhil Reed. America's constitution: a biography. (342.73 A)
Gibson, Alan Ray. Understanding the founding: the crucial questions. (342.73 G)
Kelly, Alfred Hinsey. The American Constitution: its origins and development. (342.73 K)
November, 2008
