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New Jersey Historical Commission
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P.O. Box 305
Trenton, NJ 08625

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Reform in Early 19th Century New Jersey

GRADES 5 THROUGH 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

"Search for the Good Life," pp. 154-173. In New Jersey: A Mirror on America
John T. Cunningham. Andover, N.J.: Afton Publishing Co., 1976.

GRADES 9 THROUGH 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals.
Fabend, Firth Haring. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

"Daniel Haines"
In The Governors of New Jersey, 1664-1974: Biographical Essays

Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner.
Frederick M. Hermann, Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1982 (online publication),
pp. 114-116. http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Digidox6.php

"Home, Factory, and Society"
(Safeguarding the Home, Clara Barton, Domesticity and Femininity, Mill Girls, Slavery and Slave Women, Early Reformers, Dorothea Dix), pp. 25-44.
In New Jersey Women: A History of Their Status, Roles, and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. New Jersey History Series. Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1997.

Documents

Martha Washington Salem Union No.6., Daughters of Temperance, A Portion of the Chapter of An Early Women's Temperance Union, 1846.
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_3/daughters.htm

Hannah Kinney's Records of the Newark Female Charitable Society, 1803-1804
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_2/newarkcharitable.htm

Mary Paul's Letter from the North American Phalanx, 1854
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_2/paulletter.htm

New Jersey State Constitution of 1844
http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/const44.html

Words That Make New Jersey History, edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
The White Flag of Temperance: A Song (1842), pp. 107-108.
Dorothea Dix Calls for a Hospital for the Mentally III (1845), pp. 111-114.
A Letter on the Public School System (1848), pp. 118-120.
The North American Phalanx (1853-55), pp. 128-131

Online Lectures

Maxine Lurie, "New Jersey's 1844 Constitution"
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Market Revolution"
Click on "1844 Constitution"
Click on "Online Lecture-Maxine Lurie"

Ann Pfau, "To Make Industry Attractive: Fourierism in New Jersey"(North American Phalanx)
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Market Revolution"
Click on "Fourierism"
Click on "Online Lecture-Ann Pfau"

Internet Sites

New Jersey History Partnership Project
www.nj-history.org
Click on "Enter"
Click on "Market Revolution"
Click on "Fourierism"
Or click on "1844 Constitution"
Or click on "Paterson Protests"