Early steam-powered press meant more books published and increased literacy
Unitarianism
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walden Pond
Walt Whitman
Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle
James Fenimore Cooper and the Last of the Mohicans (recently remade into a movie starring Daniel Day Lewis)
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Scarlet Letter (recently remade into a movie starring Demi Moore)
Herman Melville and Moby Dick
Portrait painting typical of earlier periods
Typical landscape painting depicting nature as mystic and beautiful
“Picturesque”
“Garden Park”
“Claude Glass”
“Sublime”
Thomas Cole
Course of Empire” #1
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Brook Farm
George Ripley
Shaker Founder: Ann Lee
Shaker Commune
Shakers: God as duel person, male and female
Oneida Community
Joseph Smith
Early Mormon converts
Mormon temple, Nauvoo, IL
Brigham Young
Mormon migration westward
Mormon temple, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mormon alphabet
New York Female Reform Society, which later expanded into the American Female Reform Society
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Early Normal School
Catharine Beecher
Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Beecher
Oberlin College in Ohio was first college to accept women
Margaret Fuller and Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (young and old)
Susan B. Anthony (young and old)
Sylvester Graham
Sylvester Graham’s crackers
Beginnings of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine
The presumed healing power of hot spring waters led to a number of resorts