Records in Oberlin College Archives:
Emilie E. Palmer 1861 Diary, Record Group 19/2, O. C. A
Oberlin College, Annual Catalog 1859-1860, Account 0/00/1, Box 4, RG College General, Catalogues, 1855-1863, O. C. A.
Student File (Loomis, Mrs. J. F. [Palmer, Emily E.]). Record Group 28/1 Box 154, O. C. A.
Other Primary Sources:
Bailey, Phillip James. “We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths.” Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. Web address, accessed 02 July 2015.
Benton, Elbert Jay and William Cox Cochran. The Western Reserve and The Fugitive Slave Law: A prelude to the Civil War. The Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland, Ohio.
Cox, Helen Finney. “Women’s Share in the Civil War.” Cochran Family Papers, RG 30/8, SG 2, Series 6, Subseries 3, Box 3, O. C. A. Web address, accessed 25 June 2015.
Grimké, Sarah. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838.
Lorain County News.
Oberlin College, Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Oberlin College for the College Year 1857-1858. (Ohio: Oberlin, 1857).
Oberlin College, Catalogue of Oberlin College for the Years 1868-1869 (Ohio: Springfield, 1868).
Oberlin College, “Catalog and Record of Colored Students, 1835-62,” O. C. A. Web address, accessed 24 June 2015.
Oberlin Electronic Group. “Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.” “Poster Announcing the Release of the Prisoners.” Web address, accessed 12 March 2015.
Oberlin Evangelist.
The Oberlin News Tribune.
Shipherd, Jacob R., “Letter from Jacob R. Shipherd to O.O. Howard,” Office of the Commissioner, Letters Received, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, M752, RG 105, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. 30 October 1865, Web address, accessed 6 July 2015.
Shipherd, Jacob. The History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue (Massachusetts: Boston, 1859).
Williams Brothers. History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Philadelphia: 1879). Web address, accessed 11 March 2015.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. (City, state: University of Virginia Library, 2010).
Secondary Sources:
“Bull Run,” Civil War Trust: Saving America’s Civil War Battlefields. Web address, accessed 18 March 2015.
Burroughs, Wilbur Greeley. “Oberlin’s Part in the Slavery Conflict.” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, 20, no. 1 (1911): 269-332. Web address, accessed 12 March 2015.
Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
“Henry Everard Peck.” Lorain County News. Web address, accessed March 17, 2015.
Lasser, Carol. “Rules of Engagement: Civil War Courtship Letters and the ‘Homefront Imaginary’” (paper presented at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 17 February 2015).
Lasser, Carol and Stacey Robertson. Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010.
Margo, Robert A. and Joel Perlmann. Women’s Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Morris, J. Brent. Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
Websites Consulted:
The Oberlin College Archives online historical portraits are great sources of biographical information for faculty and administration of Oberlin College.
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/historicalPortraits.html
The Oberlin Heritage Center is a historical society, which hosts tours, events and programs about Oberlin history. They also have online sources and documents.
http://www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/
The following websites are sources of information about Ohio history, the Civil War, and biographic information about presidents:
http://millercenter.org/president
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/
