General Sites

Use Encarta for background information

Learning to Give- information on important people
http://www.learningtogive.org/papers/index2.asp?category=People

The History Channel
http://www.history.com/topics.do?type=topics&subject=ushistory

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/listguid.html

Acitivists &Reformers- Douglass, Stanton & Truth
http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists

Biogrpahies at Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

Encyclopedia Britannica - 300 Women Who Changed the World
http://search.eb.com/women

Utopian Communities

Robert Owen and the New Harmony Society
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Cities/newharmony.html

Historic New Harmony
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/KADE/newharmony/home.html

Brook Farm
http://home.insight.rr.com/bookbytes/brookfarm.htm

 Shakers-National Geographic Photo Gallery
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/galleries/shakers/index.html

Helping the Disabled

Thomas Gallaudet
http://www.learningtogive.org/papers/index.asp?bpid=98

Women's Rights

Susan B. Anthony
http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml

History of the Movement
http://www.legacy98.org/move-hist.html

Votes for Women; the Struggle for Women's Suffrage
images from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/076_vfw.html

"Not for Ourselves Alone"  PBS
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/

Abolition

The Abolitionist Movement - Library of Congress
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html

Frederick Douglass
http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/HOME.html

Temperance

Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0848122.html

Neal Dow
http://www.maine.gov/sos/arc/archives/military/civilwar/dow.htm

Women's Education

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