J300: The Body in Early America

Library Resources for J300: The Body in Early America

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Searching IUCAT (IU Libraries Catalog)
Primary Sources I: collections
Primary Sources II: selected bibliography
Secondary Sources I: searchable databases
Secondary Sources II: selected bibliography
Writing

Searching IUCAT

Use IUCAT (Indiana University Libraries Catalog) to find both primary and secondary sources in the IUB Libraries.

The Basic search screen is the default option. Keyword searches from the Basic search screen can be a good way to get a quick idea of what is available on your topic. Search terms should be connected with “and”

gender and early america

Using Library of Congress subject heading often produces better search results. Sometimes you have to try a few keyword searches first to discover the subject headings, but here are some helpful ones:

costume united states history

medicine united states history

sex customs united states history

slaves united states social conditions

united states race relations

united states history

colonial period or 18th century

united states social conditions

violence united states history

Use Advanced Keyword Search to limit results by date and language, or to combine keyword and subject searches

Primary Sources I: collections

Eighteenth Century Collections Online -- Searchable collection of digitized 18th-century books, including many American books, and many other books that Americans would have owned.

Early American Newspapers Series I, II & III – Searchable collection of American newspapers, including dozens of 18^th-century papers. Digital images of original pages; results don’t always match search terms because the text being searched is generated by optical character recognition software (hint: "s" and "f" are often confused). (Cross-searchable with Early American Imprints collections; see below)

Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 -- Searchable full text of the Pennsylvania Gazette. (Click on Search, then select Pennsylvania Gazette). This is a re-keyed (rather than scanned) version, so search results are more accurate. Page images are also provided.

American Periodicals Series Online – Searchable collection of American newspapers and magazines. Use the date limits on the search screen to find early American materials.

Evans Digital Edition (Early American Imprints I) and Early American Imprints II- Digitized version of a huge collection of works published in North America, 1639-1819. Cross-searchable with Early American Newspapers (see above). Page images and searchable full text, but another good way to use the collection is to browse by genre or subject, or search within genres and subjects. Here are some examples of what you might find (hint: use some of these keywords for new searches).

A novel: Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of Captain John Farrago, and Teague Oregan, His Servant (Philadelphia, 1792)

An account of an epidemic: A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, In the Year 1793 (Philadelphia, 1794)

A prisoners’ narrative: Patrick Lyon, The Narrative of Patrick Lyon, Who Suffered Three Months Severe Imprisonment in the Philadelphia Gaol (Philadelphia, 1799)

Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 - Searchable full-text database of American novels and short stories.

Sabin Americana 1500-1926 - Digitized collection of original sources relating to North American history. Some overlap with Eighteenth-Century Collections Online and Early American Imprints, but includes coverage of 19th century materials.

Primary Sources II: selected bibliography

Use your IUCAT skills to find these items in the Library (selected by Professor Knott). Note that if a title you want is checked out, you can recall it. If it's only available on another IU campus, make sure you are logged-in to IUCAT, and look for the "request delivery" link.

William Bartram, Travels, and Other Writings (New York: Library of America, 1996)

Thomas P. Cope, Philadelphia Merchant: The Diary of Thomas P. Cope, 1800-1851 (South Bend: Gateway, 1978)

Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf (eds.), Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America (University Park: Penn State Press, 1997)

Elaine Forman Crane (ed.), The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994)

Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith, The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992)

Lillian B. Miller (eds.), The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family (Newhaven: Yale University Press, 1983-)

Charles Coleman Sellars, Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1952)

Billy G. Smith (ed.), Life in Early Philadelphia: Documents from the Revolutionary and National Periods (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995)

Secondary Sources I: searchable databases

America: History & Life - Electronic index to 2,000 scholarly journals in American history. Many articles are available online: use the IU-Link button to see your options for access to the article.

Advanced Search provides more search options. Use the browsable indexes for "Time Period" "Document Type" and "Subject Terms" to improve your search results

Academic Search (EBSCO) - searchable database of journal and magazine articles in many subject areas. Mostly full text; for articles that are not full text, click on the IU-Link button. (Cross-searchable with America: History and Life)

JSTOR - a collection of digitized journals, including important journals for History. Search by author, title, keyword, etc or browse by journal title. View/print digital images of original full text of articles.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine - citations to journal articles, books and other materials.

Secondary Sources II: selected bibliography

Use your library skills to find these items (selected by Professor Knott). Hint: if the title is in italics, it's a book and you can find it in IUCAT. If there are two titles and the first one is in quotes, it's a journal article. You can find it by using this journal article finder (use "Find a specific article"), which will link to full text if it's available online or to IUCAT information if it's available in print only. If it's available at IUB but not online, use the Request Article Delivery service to have it delivered to you by email.

Philadelphia:

John K. Alexander, Render them Submissive: Responses to Poverty in Philadelphia, 1760-1800 (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)

Susan Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001)

David R. Brigham, Public Culture in the Early Republic: Peale's Museum and Its Audience (Washington: Smithsonian Press, 1995)

C. Bridenbaugh and J. Bridenbaugh, Rebels and Gentlemen: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962)

John L. Cotter, Daniel G. Roberts and Michael Parrington, The Buried Past: An Archaeological History of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992)

Barbara Cunningham, "An Eighteenth-Century View of Femininity as seen through the Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg," Pennsylvania History 43 (1976)

Richard S Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn., eds., The World of William Penn (Philadelphia, 1986)

Beatrice B. Garvan, Federal Philadelphia, 1785-1825 (Philadelphia, 1987) -- catalogue of an exhibition of domestic arts and crafts held at the Philadelphia Art Museum in 1987

Sidney Hart and David C. Ward, 'The Waning of an Enlightenment Ideal: Charles Wilson Peale's Philadelphia Museum, 1790-1820', Journal of the Early Republic 8 (1988), 389-418

David Hawke, In the Midst of Revolution: The Politics of Confrontation in Colonial America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961)

Catherine E. Hutchins (ed.), Shaping a National Culture: The Philadelphia Experience, 1750-1800 (Winterthur: Winterthur Museum, 1994) --by social historians and historians of material culture

Susan E. Klepp, 'Seasoning and Society: Racial Differences in Mortality in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia', William and Mary Quarterly 51 (1994) -- available in JSTOR

Susan E. Klepp, `The Swift Progress of Population': A Documentary and Bibliographical Study of Philadelphia's Growth 1682-1859 (Philadelphia: American Phiosophical Society, 1991)

Susan Klepp (ed.), The Demographic History of the Philadelphia Region, 1600-1860 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989)

Clare A. Lyons, “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia,” William and Mary Quarterly 60 (2003), 119-154

Clare A. Lyons, Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006)

David D. Martin, The Philadelphia Campaign: June 1777 - July 1778 (Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1993)

Michael Meranze, 'The Penitential Ideal in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia', Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108 (1984), 419-50

Thomas G. Morton and Frank Woodbury, The History of the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1895 (New York, Arno Pres, 1973)

Simon P. Newman: Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003)

Gary Nash and Jane R. Soderlund, Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)

Gary Nash, 'Poverty and Poor Relief in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia', William and Mary Quarterly 33 (1976), 3-30 -- available in JSTOR

Gary B. Nash and Billy G. Smith, 'The Population of Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia', Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 99 (1975), 362-68

Ric Northrup Caric, '"To Drown the Ills That Discompose the Mind": Care, Leisure, and Identity Among Philadelphia Artisans and Workers, 1785-1840', Pennsylvania History 64 (1997), 465-89 (c)

Charles S. Olton, Artisans for Independence: Philadelphian Mechanics and the American Revolution (Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press, 1975)

Rosalind Remer, Printers and Man of Capitol: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (Philadelphia, 1996)

Steven Rosswurm, Arms, Country and Class: The Philadelphia Militia and the 'Lower Sort' During the American Revolution, 1775-1783 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987)

John Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 3 vols (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884).

Charles Coleman Sellers, Mr Peale's Museum: Charles Willson Peale and the First Popular Museum of Natural Science and Art (New York: Norton, 1980)

Ronald Schultz, The Republic of Labor: Philadelphia Artisans and the Politics of Class, 1720-1830 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993)

F.H. Shelton, 'Springs and Spas of Old-Time Philadelphians', Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography , 67 (1923), 196-237

Billy G. Smith, The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990)

Peter Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)

Frederick B. Tolles, Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia,1682-1763 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1948)

Nancy Tomes, 'The Domesticated Madman: Changing Concepts of Insanity at the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1780-1830', Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 106 (1982), 271-82.

Alan Tully, Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (Baltimore, 1994)

Sam Bass Warner, Jr, The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of its Growth (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968)

Russell E. Weigley (ed.), Philadelphia: A Three Hundred Year History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1982)

Julie Winch, Philadelphia's Black Elite: Activism, Accomodation and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988)

Karin Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000)

History of the Body:

Patricia U. Bonomi, The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)

Jane Caplan (ed.), Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History (London: Reaktion Books, 2000)

Elaine Forman Crane, '"I Have Suffer'd Much Today": The Defining Force of Pain in Early America', in Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel and Frederika J. Teute (eds.), Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1997), pp. 370-403

Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, (eds.), Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America (New York: Routledge, 1999)

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, An Introduction, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Vintage, 1980)

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, transl. Alan Sheridan (New York, 1979)

Elliot J. Gorn, The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986)

Kenneth S. Greenberg, 'The Nose, the Lie and the Duel in the Antebellum South', American Historical Review 95 (1990), 57-74

Karen Halttunen, 'Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture', American Historical Review 100 (1995), 303-33

Adam Jay Hirsch, The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)

Martha Hodes (ed.), Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999)

Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter (eds.), A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001)

John Murrin, `"Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Early America', Explorations in Early American Culture, special supplementary issue of Pennsylvania History 65 (1998), 8-43

Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996)

Roy Porter,”'History of the Body,” in Peter Burke (ed.), New Perspectives on Historical Writing (University Park PA, 1991), 206-232

Jonathan Prude, 'Runaway Ads and the Appearance of Unfree Labor', Journal of American History 78 (1991), 124-59

Elizabeth Reis, American Sexual Histories: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History (Malden MA, 2001)

E.A. Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (New York: Basic Books, 1993)

Richard H. Saunders and Ellen G. Miles, American Colonial Portraits: 1770-1776 (Washington DC, 1986)

Merril D. Smith (ed.) Sex and Sexuality in Early America (New York: New York University Press, 1998)

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, 'The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America', Signs 1 (1975), 1-29

Roger Thompson, Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986)

Peter Wagner, Eros Revived: Erotica of the Enlightement in England and America (London: Secker and Warburg, 1988)

John D. Wrathall, `Provenance as Text: Teading the Silences around Sexuality in Manuscript Collections', Journal of American History 79 (1992), 165-78

Writing

History Department’s J300/J400 page

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