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10-12th GR: Quakerism Research (Friendly Project)

Suggested resource for selected topics

You may look for specific schools of the time period or more general works about Quaker education
examples:
 
Books:

371.0974 FRI
Friends Council on Education.  Philadelphia friends schools -- Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2009.

370.9748 WOO Thomas Woody.  Early Quaker education in Pennsylvania. -- New York: Teachers College. Columbia University, 1920. 

Articles:

The Inner Light and Popular Enlightenment: Philadelphia Quakers and Charity Schooling, 1790-1820 Author(s): William C. Kashatus III Source: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 118, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Apr., 1994), pp. 87-116 Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20092846 Accessed: 23-09-2019 15:39 UTC
Friends Hospital  founded as "The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason"      
The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, the first private mental asylum in America, opened in Philadelphia on May 15, 1817.

Books

Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
9780934223829   Call # 362.21 DAN
 
The Quaker Heritage in Medicine by Clark and Elkinton (available via ILL/AccessPA)
 
Ebook:
Friends' Asylum for the Insane, 1813-1913 : a descriptive account from its foundation https://archive.org/details/friendsasylumfor00frie/page/n7/mode/2up

Searches that have yielded results:  "friends indian school",   quaker + "indian school"   quaker + "indian boarding school".  Also, search for the names of specific schools such as "Tunesassa Friends Indian School".

Here are some links that do provide some background information:

Books in the library - background on Indian Schools w/o mention of "Quaker"or "Society of Friends"

  • Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction 1875-1928  371.97 ADA
  • Cooper, Michael L. Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way 371.97 COO
  • - Kill the Indian, save the man : the genocidal impact of American Indian residential schools
  • - Education for Extinction : American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928 - 2nd edition

    - Boarding School Seasons

 

Eastern State Penitentiary. The library has several books about this:
 

1.     365.974811 DOL   Francis X Dolan.   Eastern State Penitentiary -- Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, c2007. 

2.     365.974811 JOH   Norman Bruce, 1921 Johnston, Kenneth Finkel, Jeffrey A Cohen, Kenneth Finkel, P.  et al...  Eastern State Penitentiary : crucible of good intentions -- Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Eastern State P, c1994. 

3.     365.974811 JOH   Norman Bruce Johnston.  Hope Abandoned : Eastern State Penitentiary. -- Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Prison Society, 1999. 

4.     365.974811 KAH   Paul Kahan.  Eastern State Penitentiary : a history -- Charleston, SC: History Press, 2008.

In addition to numerous library sources:

ROBERT MOSES - NY City and State and influence nationally - Edmund Bacon 0- Philly

JSTOR search - redlining "United States"

JSTOR search - HOLC Maps:  https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=The+Effects+of+the+1930s+HOLC+%22Redlining%22+Maps&so=rel

 

Hinesmon-Matthews, Lezlee J. "Redlining." In Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, ABC-CLIO, 2022. 

Generic ProQuest search :  Philadellphia redlining  https://www.proquest.com/results/7053D8BE4C644A3BPQ/1?accountid=5451

 

Books:

The Color of Law  : The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Ebooks:

Ryan, James Gilbert, and Leonard C. Schlup. Historical Dictionary of The 1940s, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/detail.action?docID=302447.    Section on Rediling: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/reader.action?docID=302447&ppg=340

 

HOLC “Redlining” Maps: The Persistent Structure Of Segregation And Economic Inequality

By Bruce Mitchell PhD., Senior Research Analyst and Juan Franco, Senior GIS Specialist, NCRC / March 20, 2018 / 

Full report PDF https://ncrc.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2018/02/NCRC-Research-HOLC-10.pdf

 

The Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps Daniel Aaronson, Daniel Hartley, and Bhashkar Mazumder

https://www.chicagofed.org/-/media/publications/working-papers/2017/wp2017-12-pdf.pdf?sc_lang=en

Magazines/Journals

Quaker focused magazines:

  • Friends Journal- Selected issues available in Gummere
  • Friends Journal- Digital Archive 
  • Quaker History-Selected issues available in Gummere; Entire collection is in JSTOR
  • Quaker Higher Education: Back Issues

 

"S-P-I-C-E-S: The Quaker Testimonies"  - a short guide to the testimonies created by Connecticut Friends School (webpage in Friends Journal  

American Friends Service Committee  https://afsc.org/

Friends Council on Education

William Penn Charter School 3000 W School House Lane Philadelphia, PA 19144 215-844-3460