The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Volumes 1-2 by Alexandra Kindell

Author:Alexandra Kindell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2018-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

For AMD and JLS, always and in all ways

Contents

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Preface

Introduction

Chronology

VOLUME 1

Arts

Introduction

American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The Atlantic Monthly (1857)

Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834–1876)

Children’s Literature

Daguerreotypes

Folk Art

Gothic Literature

Hudson River School (1820s–1880s)

Leatherstocking Tales (1823–1841)

Leaves of Grass (1855)

Lithography

The Lowell Offering (1840–1845)

Magazines, General and Literary

Miniatures

Minstrel Shows

Musical Societies

Orchestras and Concert Halls

Parlor Music

Poetry

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Serial Novels

Silver

Singing Schools and Choirs

Slave Music

Slave Narratives

Social Dances and Balls

Southern Literary Messenger (1834–1864)

Textile Arts

Theater

Travelogues

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Walden (1854)

Woodcuts

Work Songs

Economics and Work

Introduction

Apprenticeship

Artisans

Coal

Domestic Slave Trade

Factory Owners

Feme Sole

Gold Rush (1848–1855)

Grades and Futures

Horse-Drawn Vehicles

Hunting, American Indian

Immigrants

Iron

Labor Unions

Landholding and Property Ownership

Merchants and Clerks

Mill Girls

Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)

Outwork

Overseers

Panic of 1819

Panic of 1837

Panic of 1857

Precious Metals

Salt

Second Bank of the United States (1816–1836)

Slavery, Agricultural

Slavery, Urban and Industrial

Slavery and American Indians

Ten-Hour Day

Family and Gender

Introduction

Adultery

Aging and Death

Childhood, American Indian

Childhood, Middle-Class

Children and Wage Work

Children in Slavery

Courtship

Coverture

Cult of Domesticity

Divorce

Domestic Violence

Enslaved Women

Fatherhood

Gender Relations, American Indian

Honor

Housework

Manhood

Marriage

Midwifery

Mixed-Race Children

Orphans and Guardianship

Parenting

Plantation Mistresses

Pregnancy and Childbirth

Republican Motherhood

Rural Family Structure

Sexuality

Sibling Relationships

Temperance

Toys and Play

A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841–1856)

Women in America

Fashion and Appearance

Introduction

American Indian Clothing

Bathing and Washrooms

Bloomer Costume

Brooks Brothers

Corsetry

Cosmetics and Beauty Culture

Dressmakers and Tailors

Etiquette and Advice Manuals

Fashion, Children’s

Fashion, Men’s

Fashion, Women’s

Fashion Plates and Patterns

Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830–1898)

Hairstyles

Jewelry

Laundry

Lowell Cloth

Mourning Clothes

Ready-Made Clothing

Slave Clothing

Standards of Beauty

Wedding Clothes

Working-Class Clothing

Food and Drink

Introduction

Barbecue

Beer

Breads and Biscuits

Cakes

Candy

Cider

Cookbooks and Recipes

Cooking, Southern

Cooking Techniques

Dining Spaces

Food Preservation

The Frugal Housewife (1829)

Fruits and Vegetables

Kitchens

Mealtime Etiquette

Meat and Meat Processing

Pie

Rice

Roasted Meats

Special-Occasion Meals

Stews

The Virginia Housewife (1824)

Housing and Community

Introduction

Boosterism

Charity and Poor Relief

Civic Ceremonies

County Courthouses

County Seats and Market Towns

Farming Families

Frontier Communities

Gardens

Land Inheritance Patterns

Lighting

Market Revolution

Mercantile Associations

Mill Towns

Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822–1903)

Patriotism and National Identity

Plantation Houses

Plantation Landscapes

Post Office

Prisons and Punishment

Public Buildings

Public Health Campaigns and Advances

Public Squares and Spaces

Ranchos

Roads, Building and Use

Rural Architecture

Towns, Growth and Development of

Urban Residential Architecture

VOLUME 2

Politics and Warfare

Introduction

Abolition

Adams, John Quincy (1767–1848)

Bank War (1832)

Bleeding Kansas

Bleeding Sumner

Buchanan, James (1791–1868)

Calhoun, John C. (1782–1850)

Circuit Courts

Civilization Policy

Clay, Henry (1777–1852)

Corrupt Bargain (1825)

Democratic Party

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Federal Property

Fillmore, Millard (1800–1874)

Free-Soil Movement (1844–1857)

Frontier Warfare

Fuller, Margaret (1810–1850)

Garrison, William Lloyd (1805–1879)

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Government, Expanding Role of

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825–1911)

Harrison, William Henry (1773–1841)

Indian Removal

Indian Treaties

Jackson, Andrew (1767–1845)

Know-Nothing Party

Liberty Party

Lynching

Manifest Destiny

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Mexican-American War (1846–1848)

Monroe, James (1758–1831)

Mott, Lucretia Coffin (1793–1880)

National Republican Party

Osceola (1804–1838)

Pierce, Franklin (1804–1869)

Polk, James K. (1795–1849)

Republican Party

Scott, Winfield (1786–1866)

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815–1902)

Supreme Court

Tariffs and Nullification

Taylor, Zachary (1784–1850)

Texas Annexation (1834–1844)

Truth, Sojourner (1797–1883)

Tyler, John (1790–1862)

Van Buren, Martin (1782–1862)

Voting

Walker, David (ca. 1785–1830)

Webster, Daniel (1782–1852)

Whig Party

Woman’s Rights

Recreation and Social Customs

Introduction

Baseball

Boxing

Cemeteries

Christmas

City Parks

Diary Writing

Dueling

Etiquette, Southern

Festivals and Spectacles

Gambling

Gift Giving

Gossip

Harness Racing

Horse Racing

Horse Racing, Southern

Hunting

Independence Day

Ladies’ Fairs, Suppers, and Bazaars

Leisure

Letter Writing

Militia Companies

Oysters

Parades

Popular Politics

Sewing Societies

Taverns

Thanksgiving

Wrestling

Religion and Beliefs

Introduction

American Indian Religious Practices

Burial and Mourning Rituals

Christian Restoration

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Clergy

Conversion

Disciples of Christ

Finney, Charles Grandison (1792–1875)

Millerism

Mission Societies

Moral Reform

Postmillennialism

Protestant Evangelicalism

Quakers

Roman Catholicism

Second Great Awakening (ca. 1790–1845)

Secularization Act

Sermons

Shakers

Spiritualism

Sunday Schools

Tent Revivals

Transcendentalism and Fourierism

Utopian Communities

Women’s Auxiliaries

Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)

Science and Technology

Introduction

Agricultural Societies and Fairs

Bright Leaf Tobacco

Canals

Cherokee Syllabary

Diseases and Epidemics

Downing, Andrew Jackson (1815–1852)

Education, Higher

Education, Primary and Secondary

Education, Southern

Fulton, Robert (1765–1815)

Grain Elevators

Hospitals

Hospitals, Southern

Literacy Rates and Reading Habits

Mechanical Reaper

Medical Education

Mental Health Care

Patent Medicines and Quacks

Sewing Machine

Ships and Sea Travel

Short-Staple Cotton

Smallpox and Inoculations

Steamboats

Surgery

Teaching Profession

Textile Mills

Transportation

Primary Documents

Arts

George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834)

“Go Down, Moses” (folk song) (1840s)

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854)

Economics and Work

Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)

John Sutter’s Account of

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