Freedom's Ferment - Phases Of American Social History To 1860

ALICE FELT TYLER- PHASES OF AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY TO 1860. Contents include: Part One. The Faith of the Young Republic, page i Dynamic Democracy 5 COLONIAL BEGINNINGS, 5. IN THE NEW STATES, 8. CONSERVATIVE REACTION, II. THE CONSTITUTION, 12. JEFFERSONIAN REVOLUTION, 14. ROLE OF THE FRONTIER, 15. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, 21. Evangelical Religion 23 JONATHAN EDWARDS, 23. RATIONALISM AND RELIGION, 25. RELIGION IN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGES, 29, MISSIONARY SOCIETIES, 31. RELIGION ON THE FRON TIER, 33. CAMP-MEETING REVIVALISM, 35. OBSERVERS AND CRITICS, 42. Part Two. Cults and Utopias, page 46 Transcendentalism 47 TRANSCENDENTAL FAITH, 47. TRANSCENDENTAL CLUB, 50. BRONSON ALCOTT, 52. MARGARET FULLER, 54. EMERSON, 56. THOREAU, 59. THEODORE PARKER, 6l. ORESTES BROWNSON, 63. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, 65. Millennialism and Spiritualism 68 MILLERITE MILLENNIALISM, 70. THE MILLENNIAL YEAR, 74. SPIRITUALISM, 78. ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, 80. THE FOX SISTERS, 82. The Stake inZion 86 EARLY LIFE OF JOSEPH SMITH, 86. THE BOOK OF MORMON, 88. THE MOR MON CHURCH, 93. LATTER DAY SAINTS IN OHIO, 94. DIFFICULTIES IN OHIO AND MISSOURI, 97. JOSEPH SMITH IN ILLINOIS, IOI. Religious Communism in America 108 REASONS FOR COMMUNISTIC ORGANIZATION, IO8. RPHRATA CLOISTER, III. JEMIMA WILKINSON, 115. RAPPITOS, 121. BETHEL AND AURORA, 125. SEPA RATISTS OF ZOAR, 128. AMANA SOCIETY, 130. ERIC JANSON AND BISHOP HILL, 132. NORDHOFFS CONCLUSIONS, 138. The Shaker Communities 140 ENGLISH ORIGINS, 141. MOTHER ANN IN AMERICA, 143. EXPANSION OF SHAK ERISM, 145. DOCTRINE, 146. ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT, 148. WAY OF LIFE, 150. ORDER OF WORSHIP, 155. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, l6o. American Utopias of Religious Origin 166 HOPEDALE COMMUNITY, 1 66. TRANSCENDENTAL WILD OATS, 172. BROOK FARM, 175. ONETOA COMMUNITY, 184. vii viii FREEDOMS FERMENT Utopian Socialism in America 196 ROBERT OWEN AND NEW HARMONY, 196. FRANCES WRIGHT AND NASHOBA, 206. STATUS OF AMERICAN LABOR, 211. FOURIERIST PHALANXES, 217. ETIENNE CABETAND ICARIA, 22O. Part Three. Humanitarian Crusades, page 225 Education and the American Faith 227 IMPROVEMENT OF THE COMMON SCHOOL, 234. VOICE OF THE OPPOSITION, 242. PRIVATE SCHOOLS, 244. PROGRESSIVE SCHOOLS, 245. EDUCATION OF WOMEN, 250. PROGRESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, 254. AIDS TO EDUCATION, 259. Reform for the Criminal 265 PENAL CODES BEFORE 1815, 268. MOVEMENT FOR PRISON REFORM, 270 RIVAL SYSTEMS, 274. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, 283. Wards of the State 286 CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 286. POOR RELIEF, 291. EDUCATION OF DEAF MUTES AND THE BLIND, 294. CARE OF THE INSANE, 299. ...