Welcome to History 266 at Oberlin College!
[abstract]
I. Getting
to Oberlin: Backgrounds and Experiences of Early Women in Oberlin
College and Colony
1. Mrs. Rudd's Address
to the Female Colchester Society, 1811/2
(Anthony Davis)
2. Sally Rudd to
Caroline Mary Rudd, March 26, 1836
(Anthony Davis)
3. Mary Mahan to
Theodore Dwight Weld, February 21, 1836
(Robbie Fee-Thomson)
4. Hannah Maria Warner
to Andrew Warner Jr., March 15, 1841
(Polly Hubbard)
5. Mary Sheldon
Compositions:
(Ann Avouris)
a. Before Oberlin matriculation
1. "Dueling," 1842
2. "Tight Lacing," 1842
b. "Women and Politics," 1848: An Oberlin Perspective
II. Social Movements
and Social Commitments: Women and their Organizations in
Antebellum Oberlin College
1. The Ladies Literary Society, By-Laws,
1859
(Katie Shilton)
2. The Oberlin Female
Moral Reform Society
(Jen Malkowski)
a. 1840 Annual Report
b. 1855 Annual Report
3. The Oberlin Ladies
Antislavery Society: Mary Sheldon, "Our Duty to the
Oppressed," May 28, 1850
(Ann Avouris)
4. A Missionary Career:
Letters of Lucy Angela Woodcock, OC 1852, from her American
Missionary Association post in Jamaica, WI
(Tessa Levine-Sauerhoff)
a. December 20, 1859
b. December 30, 1862
c. November 28, 1863
III. The Voices of Oberlin
Women: Making Their Own Case
1. The Power of the
Pen: Frances Hazen, "Young Women," 1859
(Katie Shilton)
2. Speaking Out at
Graduation
(Robbie Fee-Thomson)
a. Did Mary Raley Speak? An Explanation with Exhibits
1. Mary Raley Cravath Photograph
2. 1858 Commencement Program
b. Women and the Graduation of 1861
1. "Commencement Exercises," Oberlin Evangelist,
September 11, 1861
2. "The Book of Nature," Commencement Essay by Ella S.
Risley, 1861
IV. Oberlin Women of Color
and the Struggle for Racial Equality
1. The Ladies Board
Proceedings: A Sidewalk Scuffle in July 1851
(Alexis Milinusic)
2. The Edmondson
Sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Cowles Family: Freed Women
and their Sponsors
(Julie Libes)
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mary Cowles, August 4, 1852
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mary Edmondson, October 2, 1852
c. Emily Edmondson to Mary and Henry Cowles, June 3, 1853
3. Educational
Opportunity for Young Children of Color; Letters between Waldo
Johnson and Henry Cowles
(Emily Wexler)
a. March 20, 1855
b. May 26, 1855
4. Louisa Alexander,
Oberlin Women, and the Teaching of Freed People
(Emily Wexler)
a. Mary Ann Parker Dascomb to George Whipple, September 19, 1865
b. Louisa Alexander to George Whipple, October 5, 1865
c. Francis Cardozo to [Samuel Hunt], [1865]
V. Oberlin Scandals and the
Circumscription of the Female Sphere: Women and (Mis)Behavior in
an Evangelical Community
1. The Tribulations of
Emily Pillsbury Burke, 1850-1
(Anna Clausen)
a. Letter of Mary Jane Churchill to "Brother and
Sister," January 25, 1850
b. Appeal of Emily Burke to the Board of Trustees, n.d.
2. The Church Trial of
Eliza and Ebenezer Penfield
(Mike Small)
a. Mrs. Penfield's Charges Against her Husband, 1852
b. Report of the Church Committee on the Case of Mrs. Maria
Penfield, December 3, 1852
3. Cornelia Bardwell
and the Questions of Slander
a. The Oberlin Church Case
(Kristen Marzolo)
1. Transcript of Hearing, December 12, 1853
2. Report of Congregational Church, February 8, 1854
b. Cornelia Bardwell's Charges against Mrs. Rice: A Report on a
Hearing Before the Ladies Board, October 17, [1859]
(Alexis Milinusic)
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