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Burned Over District

Web sites

History Dept. at the University of San Diego: The Burned-Over District
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/civilwar/01/burned.html

Answers.com: Second Great Awakening
http://www.answers.com/topic/second-great-awakening

Faculty of Arts at University of Groningen: An Outine of American History
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/H/1994/ch4_p13.htm

The National Park Service: Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/76mclintock/76setting.htm

Olivercowdery.com: 1810-1830 Federal Census Indices
http://olivercowdery.com/census/BurntCen.htm

The Crooked Lake Review Fall 2005 — Saints, Sinners and Reformers: The Burned-Over District Re-Vistited
http://www.crookedlakereview.com/articles/136_167/137fall2005/137martin.html

Books

Altschuler, Glenn C. and Saltzgaber Jan M., Revivalism social conscience, and
community in the Burned-over District: the trail of Rhoda Bement.
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Barkun, Michael. Crucible of the millennium: the burned-over district of
New York in the 1840s. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986.

Cross, Whitney R. The Burned-Over District; the Social and Intellectual History of
Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850. Ithaca, NY and London, 1950.

Potash, P. Jeffrey. Vermont's burned-over district: patterns of community
development and religious activity, 1761-1850. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1991.

Wellman, Judith. Grass roots reform in the burned-over district of upstate
New York: religion, abolitionism, and democracy. New York: Garland
Pub., 2000.

Henry Janes

Excerpts from Early Reminiscences of Janesville by Henry Janes. Reprinted in Wisconsin Historical Collections Vol. VI

John Nolen

Web sites

Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine
http://www.wnrmag.com/stories/1998/jun98/parks.htm

Wisconsin Historical Society: John Nolen
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/topics/nolen/index.asp -Photo

San Diego Biographies: John Nolen (1869-1937)
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/nolen/

PennDesign (formerly University of Pennsylvania School of Design): John Nolen collection of presentation plants
http://www.design.upenn.edu/archives/majorcollections/nolen.html

Books

Nolen, John. Better city planning for Bridgeport; some fundamental
proposals to the City plan commission. Bridgeport, Conn.: The Brewer-Colgan co., printers] 1916

Nolen, John. City planning: a series of papers presenting the essential elements of a city plan. New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, c1916.

Nolen, John. Comprehensive Planning for small towns and villages. Boston: American Unitarian Association, [1911?].

Nolen, John. Madison, a model city. Boston, Mass., 1911.

Nolen, John. The making of a park system in La Crosse: report. La Crosse, Wis.:
Inland Printing Co., 1911.

Nolen, John. New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and village. New York city,
American city bureau [c1919].

Nolen, John. Parkways and land values. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937.

Rogers, Millard F,. John Nolen & Mariemont: building a new town in Ohio. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Military History

Janesville 99

Rock County Historical Society—The Janesville 99: Against All Odds
http://www.rchs.us/exhibit/page70.html

Rock County Historical Society Janesville 99 bibliography
http://www.rchs.us/exhibit/page73.html

Wiscosin Veterans Museum: Regimental History of the 32nd Division
http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/Res_WWII5.asp

Exploration Films: The Janesville 99
http://explorationfilms.com/info.asp?action=display&record=69

PBS American Experience: MacArthur>Capture and Death March
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/sfeature/bataan_capture.html

Hedberg Public Library
http://hedbergpubliclibrary.org/index.php

Medal of Honor Winners

Congressional Medal of Honor Society
http://www.cmohs.org/recipients.htm

Wisconsin Veterans Museum
http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/Res_honorrecipients_List.asp

Wisconsin Recipients of the CMOH
http://www.medalofhonor.com/recipients/wilist.html

Wisconsin Recipients
http://www.homeofheroes.com/hometownheroes/wi.html

U.S. Army Center For Military History
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/default.htm