Recommended Reading

Learn more about the 19th-century social and political history that influenced the Stone Building families:

• Blackwell, Alice Stone. Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman’s Rights. University of Virginia Press, 2001.
• Bode, Carl. The American Lyceum: Town Meeting of the Mind, 1956.
• Brown, Kathleen M. Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
• Bryant, Albert W. “Lexington Sixty Years Ago.” Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society 2 (1900): 19–64.
• Cameron, Christopher. To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement. Kent State University Press, 2014.
• Carlson, Larry A. “Bronson Alcott’s ‘Journal for 1838’ (Part Two).” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1994, 123–93. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30227654.
• Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (LOA #358). Library of America, 2022.
• Evans, Sara Margaret. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. Free Press, 1991.
• Follen. The Works of Charles Follen: With a Memoir of His Life. Hilliard, Gray, 1842.
• Frank, Albert J. Von. Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston. Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Grady, Anne, and Walter Leutz. “Charles Follen, the East Village and Abolitionism,” n.d.
• Greenidge, Kerri. Boston’s Abolitionists. Commonwealth Editions, 2006.
• Grimke, Sarah, and Angelina Grimke. On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters. Penguin, 2015.
• Grodzins, Dean. American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003.
• Gross, Robert A. The Transcendentalists and Their World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
• Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Hirshman, Linda. The Color Of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation. HarperCollins, 2022.
• Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Genealogies. Houghton Mifflin, 1913.
• Jones, Douglas A. Maria W. Stewart: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist. Oxford University Press, 2024.
• Kantrowitz, Stephen. More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889. Penguin, 2013.
• Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. Rutgers University Press, 1992.
• Kollen, Richard. Lexington: From Liberty’s Birthplace to Progressive Suburb. Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
• Lemire, Elise. Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
• Lyceum Movement: Encyclopedia Britannica
• The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Lyceum Movement: Encyclopedia Britannica
• Marshall, Megan. The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism. HMH, 2006.
• Mayer, Henry. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008.
• McMillen, Sally Gregory. Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life. Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Murphy, Emily A. “Abolition, Women’s Rights and War: From the End of the Revolution to the End of the Civil War, 1790-1865.” Lexington Historical Society White Paper, n.d.
• Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. Cornell University Press, 2006.
• Ray, Angela G. The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Michigan State University Press, 2005.
• Robertson, Stacey M. Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist. Cornell University Press, 2018.
• Sinha, Manisha. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. Liveright Publishing, 2024.
• ———. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. Yale University Press, 2016.
• Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Women’s Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Short History with Documents. Macmillan Higher Education, 2018.
• Smith, George O. “Reminiscences of the Fur Industry.” Proceedings of the Lexington Historical Society II (1900): 175–86. http://archive.org/details/proceedingsoflex02lexi.
• Spady, James O’Neil. Fugitive Movements: Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2022.
• Spindler, George Washington. The Life of Karl Follen: A Study in German-American Cultural Relations. University of Chicago Press, 1917.
• Strangis, Joel. Lewis Hayden and the War Against Slavery. Linnet Books, 1999.
• Swope, Jennifer. “The Robbins Family of East Lexington, Massachusetts: Furriers and Their Clothing, 1775-1825.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol 41, No 2, Summer 2013.
• Washington, Margaret. Sojourner Truth’s America. University of Illinois Press, 2009.
• Waters, Kristin. Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2021.
• Wickenden, Dorothy. The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights. Simon and Schuster, 2022.
• Woo, Ilyon. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom. Simon and Schuster, 2023.
• Worthen, Edwin B. Tracing the Past in Lexington, Massachusetts. Vantage Press, 1998.
• Wright, Tom F. The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-century America, 2013.
• Yacovone, Donald. Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1991. http://archive.org/details/samueljosephmayd0000yaco.