Growing Apart

Primary Sources:

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"On Behalf of the Insane Poor" by Dorothea Dix

The Declaration of Sentiments - Seneca Falls Convention

"The Rights of Women" by Rochester North Star, 1848

The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony (1872)

The Liberator Files

The Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass (1855)

"What to a slave is the 4th of July?" by Fredrick Douglass

Private Letter: Pres. Fillmore on the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Private Letter: Pres. Pierce on the Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Dred Scott v Sandford (1856)

The Liberator on the Dred Scott Decision

Transcript of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1861

First Inaugural Address, Jefferson Davis, 1861

Confederate Account of the Events at Fr. Sumter, 1861

South Carolina's Declaration of Succession, 1860

Constitution of the Confederate States of America

Secondary Sources:

"Susan B. Anthony" by Fanny Villard (1920, The Nation)

Historynet: "Dred Scott" - A Biography

Reevaluating the civil war: The Atlantic: "150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War" by Tony Horwitz.

How do we judge Presidents: BBC: "James Buchanan: Worst US president?" by Tom Geoghegan.

12 Years a Slave: theguardian: "12Years a Slave: The original story of Solomon Northrop from 1853" by the New York Journal of Commerce.

On the Kansas-Nebraska Act: Smithsonian: "The Law that Ripped America in Two" by Ross Drake.

Multimedia:

Dept. of English, University of Virginia: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Gilder-Lehrman: "John Brown" Interactive

Crash Course: "19th Century Reforms" 14:47

Crash Course: "Women in the 19th Century" 13:11

Crash Course: "The Election of 1860 & The Road to Disunion" 14:16

History Channel: "Abraham Lincoln" 1:29:20

Bio: "Abraham Lincoln" 3:55

WCIU: "Did You Know? Stephen A. Douglas" 6:14

Ken Burns: "The Civil War: Ft. Sumter" 2:41

CSPAN: "Ft. Sumter" 6:18

MinnesotaHistory: "Split in Two - Dred Scott Decision" 6:09

Lincoln/Net: "Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Rise of the Republican Party" 9:17

Keigh Hughes: "The Compromise of 1850 for Dummies" 5:01

TMW: "Henry Clay and The Struggle for the Union - The Compromise of 1850" 3:58

National History Day: "Dorothea Dix" 8:45

Bio: "Susan B. Anthony" 2:17

West Virginia Public: "Harper's Ferry and John Brown" 26:46

CSPAN: "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" 9:28

PBS: Who Are the Abolitionists?