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Understanding Comstock through Primary Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2025

Kimberly A. Hamlin
Kimberly A. Hamlin*
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Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
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Extract

In addition to reading and assigning the essays in this special forum, instructors may want to bring a discussion of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws into their classes through primary sources. This essay introduces a few readily accessible and rich options.

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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 2024 , pp. 472 - 481
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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Notes

1 “Act for Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use,” Mar. 3, 1873.

2 Victoria C. Woodhull, “The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case: The Detailed Statement of the Whole Matter by Mrs. Woodhull.” Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, Nov. 2, 1872, 9–13. Digitized by Hamilton College: https://litsdigital.hamilton.edu/collections/woodhull-claflins-weekly-vol-05-no-07-november-2-1872#page/10/mode/2up (accessed June 11, 2024).

3 “Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement: Topics in Chronicling America,” Library of Congress Research Guides, https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-margaret-sanger (accessed June 11, 2024).

4 Margaret Sanger, Family Limitation (New York: Review Publishing Printers, 1914. Digitized by Harvard University Library, https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:2577621$5i (accessed June 11, 2024).

5 Rose Eveleth, “Lysol’s Vintage Ads Subtly Pushed Women to Use Its Disinfectant as Birth Control,” Smithsonian Magazine, Sept. 30, 2013, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lysols-vintage-ads-subtly-pushed-women-to-use-its-disinfectant-as-birth-control-218734/#:~:text=According%20to%20historian%20Andrea%20Tone,contraception%20during%20the%20Great%20Depression (accessed June 11, 2024).

6 “Ida Craddock’s Letter to the Public on the Day of her Suicide,” Oct. 16, 1902, https://www.idacraddock.com/public.html (accessed June 11, 2024).