Reference works used in the preparation of this exhibition include:

Janet Farrell Brodie.
Contraception and abortion in nineteenth century America.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

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Ed. by Allen Johnson. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.

Thomas M. McDade, comp.
The annals of murder. A bibliography of books and pamphlets on American
murders from colonial times to 1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 1961

James C. Mohr.
Abortion in America. The origins and evolution of national policy, 1800-1900.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

David S. Reynolds.
Beneath the American renaissance. The subversive imagination in the age of
Emerson and Melville.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Amy Gilman Srebnick.
The mysterious death of Mary Rogers. Sex and culture in nineteenth-century
New York.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.