The Last Days of Dogtown
Selected Web Resources
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Abolitionism
Alcoholism
- College Alcohol Study – Harvard School of Public Health
- Higher Education Center for Alcohol and other Drug Abuse
- Alcohol: Problems & Solutions
- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies – UNC
- NIAAA - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- AA – Alcoholics Anonymous
American Women's History
- American Women – Library of Congress; American Memory
- African-American Women – On-line Archival Exhibit; Duke University
- Martha Ballard’s Online Diary – Healer and Midwife 1735-1812
- Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
- Women in America - Travelogues 1820-1842
- Women’s History & Impact on the World
- National Women’s History Project
Photos courtesy Ellen Parker
Canine Behavior
- Social Organization of Domestic Dogs – A Longitudinal Study
- Companion Animals in the Community
- Human Animal Bond – Merck Veterinary Manual
- Dogs Social Behavior – Merck Veterinary Manual
- Human-like social skills in dogs? – Article in Press
- Canine Rivalry
Daily Life and Culture 19th Century
- 19th Century America Culture - Timeline by decade; Kingwood College Library
- Public Domain Music – Listen to music from the 1800s
- 19th American Children’s Literature
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture
- History Learning Lab – early New England life - Old Sturbridge Village
- Shaping the Values of Youth – Sunday School Books in 19th Century America
- History of Early American Taverns
- Popular Songs in American History
Domestic Medicine - Household remedies
- 19th Century Medicine – University of Toledo Libraries
- Commonly Used Medical Terms in America, 1828
- Feeding America – Historic America Cookbook Project
- Henriette’s herbal medicine pages
- American Medicinal Leaves and Herbs
- Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
- Medicine in the Americas
- Time, Tide and Tonics: The Patent Medicine Almanac in America
Ghost Towns
Poverty
- The Poorhouse Story – the history of 19th century poorhouses
- Orphan Trains
- Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart – features a Living Wage Calculator
- Poverty in New Jersey – Poverty Research Institute
- Fighting Hunger in New Jersey
- Children in Poverty
- NPR: Fighting Poverty in America
- Google Directory - Homelessness
Prostitution
- Women’s History Then & Now - Prostitution
- Fact book on Global Sexual Exploitation
- Coalition against trafficking in women
- Flora Tristan, “Prostitutes”
- Their Sisters’ Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 – online book
Slavery
- A Slave’s Story – Electronic Text Center, University Virginia Library
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project
- Voices from the Days of Slavery, Audio Interviews (American Memory)
- African American Odyssey – Library of Congress
- Exploring Amistad - Mystic Seaport
United States History
- 19th Century Documents – Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- Digital History – Primary source documents from 1600 - 1865
- American Experience - The Time of the Lincolns
- Religion and the New Republic – Library of Congress
- Hypertexts Project – University of Virginia
Witchcraft
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