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)

Testimonies and Conversion Stories

• The Dying Jewess (children's literature, 1833)
• Aaron Lummus's Religious Conversion (book excerpt, 1850)

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)

Age of Reform

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)
• 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)
• 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)
• A Women's Temperance Society (book excerpt, 1843)

 

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

• Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law (image, 1850)
• Colored Scholars Excluded from School (image, 1839)

Songs

• Song of the Abolitionist (song lyrics, 1843)
• Antislavery Hymn (song lyrics, 1843)

Pro-Abolition Voices

• Catharine Beecher Opposes Abolitionism (book excerpt, 1837)
• The Anti-Slavery Almanac (almanac, 1839)
• A Declaration (broadside, 1835)
• Am I Not a Man and a Brother
• 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)
• A Declaration of the Sentiments of the People of Hartford (1835)

Pro-Slavery Critics of Abolition

A Pro Slavery Letter by S. Trott

Pro-Slavery Letter from the Cincinnati Post and Anti-Abolitionist

 

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)
• Social Morality (book excerpt, 1835)

• Sunday Observances (book excerpt, 1893)

 

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)