New England reformers, by R. W. Emerson.
The northern attack on slavery, by A. Craven.
The abolitionists and psychology, by M. B. Duberman.
The psychology of commitment: the constructive role of violence and suffering for the individual and for his society, by S. S. Tomkins.
The Anglo-American world of humanitarian endeavor, by F. Thistlethwaite.
Religious benevolence as social control, 1815-1860, by C. S. Griffin.
Charles Grandison Finney, by W. G. McLoughlin.
Religious groups and political parties, by L. Benson.
Temperance, status control, and mobility, 1826-1860, by J. R. Gusfield.
The emergence of immediatism in British and American antislavery thought, by D. B. Davis.
Romantic reform in America, 1815-1865, by J. L. Thomas.
Selective bibliography (p. 177-180)