Kathryn Kish Sklar

The Social survey in historical perspective 1880-1940

List of figures List of tables List of maps Notes on contributors Preface 1. The social survey in historical perspective Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sylar 2. The social survey in social perspective, 1830-1930 Eileen Janes Yeo 3. Charles Booths survey of Life and Labour of the People in London 1889-1903 Kevin Bales 4. Hull-House Maps and Papers: social science as womens work in the 1890s Kathryn Kish Sylar 5. The place of social investigation, social theory and social work in the approach to late Victorian and Edwardian social problems: the case of Beatrice Webb and Helen Bosanquet Jane Lewis 6. W. E. B. Du Bois as a social investigator: The Philadelphia Negro 1899 Martin Bulmer 7. Concepts of poverty in the British social surveys from Charles Booth to Arthur Bowley E. P. Hennock 8. The part in relation to the whole: how to generalise? The prehistory of representative sampling Alain Desrosieres 9. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Social Survey Movement: a sociological road not taken Steven R. Cohen 10. The world of the academic quantifiers: the Columbia University family and its connections Stephen P. Turner 11. The decline of The Social Survey Movement and the rise of American empirical sociology Martin Bulmer 12. The social survey in Germany before 1933 Irmela Gorges 13. Anglo-American contacts in the development of research methods before 1945 Jennifer Platt 14. The social survey in historical perspective: a governmental perspective Roger Davidson 15. The dangers of castle building - surveying the social survey Seth Koven Index.

Organized Womanhood: Archival Sources on Women and Progressive Reform

Power, defined as the ability to control the distribution of social resources, was more evident in womens activities in the Progressive Era than at any time previous or, some would say, since. Yet historians have barely begun to investigate that power. Although we know a great deal about the causes and consequences of womens social actions in the antebellum era, the decades around 1900 remain relatively uncharted. Nevertheless, those decades are critical for our understanding of how womens political culture matured and how it entered the mainstream of American politics. This essay reviews archival collections in terms of their ability to illuminate how women mobilized social and political power through their organizations., All scholars of United States womens history are indebted to the monumental compilation, Womens History Sources, which is particularly rich in organizational records. This essay builds on that work and assumes the readers familiarity with it. This brief article can only hint at the extent and depth of a few collections; researchers must rely on Womens History Sources for more complete guidance.2

American Anti-Slavery Society

By 1834 women had become so active in the petition campaign to Congress to end slavery in the District of Columbia that the AASS printed a special form for them. While this form did not explicitly assert women’s right to petition, it did argue that women’s petitions were appropriate to the political moment. Hundreds of women who signed these forms thronged to hear the Grimke sisters speak in 1836 and 1837.

Democratizing Student Learning: The "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940" Web Project at SUNY Binghamton.

WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A REVOLUTION in the teaching and research of history, one whose ultimate impact on the profession is hard to discern. The growing use of electronic resources-worldwide web sites, online discussion groups, and CD-ROMs, to name just the ones most commonly employed-has dramatically increased creative possibilities in high school and college classrooms. History teachers will surely benefit from a broadening discussion of this new world. Yet no amount of discussion or array of creative lessons on how to access materials on the web can change the reality that the educational possibilities for teachers and students are limited by the kinds of materials that are published on the worldwide web. Worldwide web technology is a perfect match for teaching about history because it permits us to analyze documents that otherwise would remain inaccessible. The technology thereby boosts our capacities as teachers because it gives our students access to the documents that reveal the processes of historical change, and it helps our students develop

The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society

This report offers a window onto the struggles within women’s organizations in 1839, as women chose sides in the break between the AASS and the “new organization.”

Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

Resolutions passed at this unprecedented convention reveal the public priorities of Garrisonian women, and the place that women’s rights was beginning to occupy within their ranks.

Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

This report views the remarkable events of 1837 from the perspective of the largest women’s antislavery society. The society’s annual financial report shows how it spent its money, and its constitution probably served as the model for many other Garrisonian groups.

Catharine E. Beecher

Responding to Angelina Grimke’s Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836), Catharine Beecher vigorously defended different forms of female power. Her goal of feminizing the teaching profession led her to promote women’s power within the family. Opposing slavery, but fearful of civil war, Beecher promoted more acceptable avenues for change through slow reforms and education.

Launching a New Journal: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000

This article traces the founding and development of an online journal, Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000 (WASM), which Sklar & Dublin began editing in 2003. A quarterly journal, a database, and a website, WASM publishes edited collections of primary documents and full‐text sources that focus on the history of women and social activism in the United States. The journal’s editors discuss their experience in launching the journal and reach out to scholars in the UK to expand the transnational and comparative dimensions of the project.

Henry Clarke Wright

Wright’s new career as an itinerant lecturer and writer on family reform proved more successful than his earlier work with the antislavery movement His support of women’s rights shifted from advocating women’s public rights in the 1830s to promoting women’s rights to control their bodies in the 1850s.