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The era of reform, 1830-1860
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.
Year: c1960.
Publisher:  Van Nostrand. 
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Frontmatter
Introduction
I THE PHILOSOPHY OF REFORM
1. Thomas Jefferson: All Eyes Are Opened to the Rights of Man, 1826
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Man the Reformer, 1841
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The New England Reformers, 1844
4. Robert Owen: Call for a World Convention, 1845
5. Horace Greeley: Reforms and Reformers
6. Theodore Parker: A Brief History of New England Reform
II UTOPIANISM
7. Frances Wright: Reform, Radical and Universal, 1829
8. Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands, 1843
9. Elizabeth Peabody: Account of Brook Farm
10. Adin Ballou Explains the Hopedale Community
11. Report of the Trumball Phalanx, 1846
12. John H. Noyes: Constitution of the Oneida Community, 1848
III POLITICAL REFORM
13. George Bancroft: The People Is Always Firm and Sagacious, 1835
14. Thomas Dorr: The Right of the People to Remake Their Constitutions, 1842
15. Justice Daniel: The Relation of Property to Government, 1848
16. Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of Richmond, Virginia, 1829
17. Norton Townshend on Negro Suffrage in Ohio, 1851
18. Andrew Jackson on Rotation in Office, 1829
IV WOMEN'S RIGHTS
19. Catherine Beecher on Education for Women, 1829
20. Seneca Falls Declaration of Independence, 1848
21. Lucy Stone: Protest Against Existing Marriage Rules and Customs, 1855
22. Ohio Memorial on Woman Suffrage, 1850
23. Wendell Phillips: Plea for Woman Suffrage, 1861
V Economic Reform
24. Thomas Skidmore: A Plan for Equalizing Property, 1829
25. William Leggett: Rich and Poor, 1834
26. Andrew Jackson: The Danger of a Money Monopoly, 1837
27. Theodore Parker: The Bad Merchant, 1846
28. Child Labor in Massachusetts, 1825
29. The Case of the Journeyman Tailors, 1836
30. Justice Shaw Legalizes Unions and Collective Bargaining, 1842
VI LAND REFORM
31. Feudal Tenure in New York and the Antirent Troubles, 1844-46
32. Pre-Emption Act of 1841
33. George Henry Evans and the Beginnings of Homestead Agitation, 1844
34. "Vote Yourself a Farm," 1846
35. The Homestead Act, 1860
VII EDUCATION
36. The Massachusetts High School Act, 1827
37. Abraham Lincoln on the Vital Importance of Education, 1832
38. Thaddeus Stevens: Plea for Public Education in Pennsylvania, 1835
39. Horace Mann on Education and National Welfare, 1848
40. Massachusetts Compulsory School Law, 1852
41. The Constitution of a Lyceum, 1829
42. Elizabeth Peabody: Record of Mr. Alcott's School 1835
43. Walt Whitman on the Faults of Public Schools, 1847
VIII HUMANITARIANISM
44. Protest Against Imprisonment for Debt, 1830
45. Edward Livingston: Code of Reform and Prison Discipline, 1824, 1833
46. Temperance and Prohibition Legislation, 1850-55
47. Religious Freedom: Petition on Behalf of Abner Kneeland, 1838
48. Charles Loring Brace: The Founding of the Children's Aid Society, 1853
49. Dorothea Dix: Memorial on the Condition of the Insane of Massachusetts, 1843
IX THE PEACE CRUSADE
50. William Lloyd Garrison: Declaration of Non-Resistance Sentiments, 1838
51. William Ladd: Program for a Congress of Nations, 1840
52. Elihu Burritt: Address on a Congress of Nations, 1849
53. Charles Sumner: The Truth Grandeur of Nations, 1845
CONCLUSION
54. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Earth's Holocaust, 1844
55. Horace Greeley: The Life of the Reformer
INDEX
LIST OF ANVIL BOOKS
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Title: The era of reform, 1830-1860 : Henry Steele Commager.
Author: Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
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Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
Princeton, N. J.: Van Nostrand, c1960.
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Subject Headings: • Reformers
• United States -- Social conditions
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