Resource Guide
for Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
About the Playwright - Lauren Gunderson
An interview with Playwright, Lauren Gunderson
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About Louisa May Alcott and her family
A biography of Louisa May Alcott and her family members.
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Sources & Further Reading
Louisa May & Lauren
- https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/louisa-may-alcott
- https://louisamayalcott.org/louisa-may-alcott
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Little-Women-novel-by-Alcott
- https://www.aahn.org/alcott
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/specialfeatures/little-women-7-surprising-facts-about-louisa-may-alcott/#
- https://www.nypl.org/node/5656
- https://lithub.com/louisa-may-alcott-a-difficult-woman-who-got-things-done/
- https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/playwright-lauren-gunderson-theatreworks-silicon-valley-little-woman/
- https://www.anoisewithin.org/interview-with-lauren-gunderson/
- https://www.marinshakespeare.org/an-interview-with-lauren-gunderson/
- https://www.actorsco-op.org/campaigns/view-campaign/frEVoGXs24gg1QxuqMirauMAfsVnelYXBfJG1mIBXR6iCI4RNk8PSjSb9Ne2e0Jh4fruwash5ff-jmZrXHKfgnlCl0m9XNU5
- Transcendentalism
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Transcendentalism-American-movement
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/transcendentalism-and-social-reform
- https://www.history.com/articles/transcendentalism
- https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/literature-and-writing/transcendentalism-literary-period
- The American Civil War
- https://www.history.com/articles/civil-war-causes-issues
- https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Foyc.yale.edu%2Fhistory%2Fhist-119%2Flecture-21&sa=D
- https://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Ftopics%2Famerican-civil-war%2Freconstruction&sa=D
- https://fscj.pressbooks.pub/ushistory/chapter/experiences-of-soldiers-and-civilians/
- https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War
- https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/junkanoo-01988
- https://www.conchandcoconut.com/blogs/the-good-life/junkanoo-the-great-holiday-celebration-in-harbour-island-bahamas
- https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Bilby.pdf
- https://www.history.com/articles/christmas-slavery-american-south
- https://www.history.com/articles/civil-war-christmas
- https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
- https://westbrookfield.org/cw-massachusetts/
- https://dcc.newberry.org/?p=14425
- http://digitalexhibits.wsulibs.wsu.edu/exhibits/show/civilwar/women---civilians/women-in-the-north#_ftnref2
- https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/the-home-front-north-and-south.html
- https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/civil-war-and-reconstruction-1861-1877/north-during-the-civil-war/#:~:text=The%20Civil%20War%20had%20fewer,War%20occurred%20on%20Southern%20soil.
- https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/north-and-south
- https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-what-everyone-should-know-about-civil-war?ms=goolegrant&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=1432490795&gbraid=0AAAAAD6pCMjhGZXWAmMVD8rSbGsgI3UdD&gclid=CjwKCAjw3tzHBhBREiwAlMJoUmKBHV6vYt7Hcge3uL805vt7rFbxiho8myNcDgfygH7LL1BwmqrkhxoCjmgQAvD_BwE
- https://www.history.com/articles/civil-war-culture
- https://pshares.org/blog/civil-war-christmas-traditions-in-little-women/
- https://fscj.pressbooks.pub/ushistory/chapter/experiences-of-soldiers-and-civilians/
- https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/total-war-civil-wars-effect-home-front
- https://www.history.com/articles/women-in-the-civil-war
- https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/free-blacks-lived-in-the-north-right/
- Abolition
- https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/1833-act-abolition-slavery-british-empire#:~:text=The%20Act%20on%20the%20Abolition,people%20was%20banned%20in%201807.
- https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_2/p_3.html
- https://www.ushistory.org/us/22c.asp?srsltid=AfmBOorh0c7DP8ve7_96y1-NAKAxAkKylHsL0kiq8DhEzEgJZWlfTvB4
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
- https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/1861/dec/distribution-of-slaves-in-1860.html
- https://www.theroot.com/slavery-by-the-numbers-1790874492
- https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-seattle-republican/36242216/
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/rachel-weeping-her-children-black-women-and-abolition-slavery
- https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/black-women-abolitionists-fight-freedom-19th-century
- https://www.ushistory.org/us/22c.asp?srsltid=AfmBOorh0c7DP8ve7_96y1-NAKAxAkKylHsL0kiq8DhEzEgJZWlfTvB4#google_vignette
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/45313845?read-now=1&seq=2
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/eighcent.57.3.401?searchText=abolition%20movement&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dabolition%2Bmovement%26so%3Drel%26pagemark%3DeyJwYWdlIjoyLCJzdGFydCI6MjUsInRvdGFsIjo4MTcyNH0%253D%26groupefq%3DWyJjb250cmlidXRlZF9hdWRpbyIsInNlYXJjaF9jaGFwdGVyIiwibXBfcmVzZWFyY2hfcmVwb3J0X3BhcnQiLCJyZXZpZXciLCJzZWFyY2hfYXJ0aWNsZSIsImNvbnRyaWJ1dGVkX3RleHQiLCJyZXNlYXJjaF9yZXBvcnQiLCJjb250cmlidXRlZF92aWRlbyJd&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Ftest&refreqid=fastly-default%3A072b1c2b9e64ca8e8d99bc93c3e4e8eb
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/25164255?searchText=abolition%20movement&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dabolition%2Bmovement%26so%3Drel&ab_segments=0%2Fspellcheck_basic_search%2Ftest&refreqid=fastly-default%3A0ad9bbedf9d766758117f0848937fcef
- https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/abolition-and-abolitionists/
- https://www.crusadeforthevote.org/abolition
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/abolitionism-European-and-American-social-movement/Southern-defense-of-the-peculiar-institution
- https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/06/30/the-heart-of-the-abolition-movement/
- https://www.history.com/articles/abolitionist-movement
- https://libraries.udmercy.edu/archives/special-collections/index.php?collectionCode=baa
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