Links to Online Resources
The Camp Meeting and Benevolent Societies
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel07.html
Generously illustrated with artifacts and documents from the Library
of Congress, these concise sections are very accessible to secondary level
students. Part of the Library's outstanding online exhibition Religion
and the Founding of the American Republic.
Revivalism and Benevolence
http://www.wfu.edu:/~matthetl/perspectives/seven.html
Highly readable lecture from Dr. Terry Matthews for his course "Religious
Life in the United States" at Wake Forest University (NC).
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