Publications
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- From the Editor
- Canterbury’s Shaker Museum: Curating the Past During Times of Change and Crisis by Becky Soules
- Holes in the Fabric of a Shaker Village: Three Lost Buildings of the Harvard Shaker Society by Ned Quist
- “For the benefit of Believers only”: The Remarkable Odyssey of Thirty Medical Receipts by Kerry Hackett
Front cover illustration: Only known photograph of the museum in situ in the Brethren’s South Shop (ca. 1877–1917). (Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College)
Back cover illustration: William Wright: North Family Dwelling, 1896. (Courtesy of the Trustees Archives and Research Center) -
- From the Editor
- Excelsior Beneath the Water: Spiritualism, Socialism, Flood and Tragedy in Utopia, Ohio 1847 by Mitchell K. Jones
- “Whatever is in you has to come out”: An Individual’s Journey through Bhagwan’s Communes and Beyond by Kate Biedermann
Front cover illustration: Sarita Akin, sister of Madhuri, dancing in meditation. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College. Back cover illustration: Arthur Rothstein, photographer. Untitled photo, possibly related to: Melting snow, Utopia, Ohio. United States Ohio Utopia, 1940. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017726788/.
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American Communal Societies Series, no. 15. 100 pages with illustrations, 2030
ISBN: 978-1-937370-36-7 ($20)
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German Socialist Wilhelm Weitling visited eight American intentional communities during 1851-1852. He published accounts of these visits in his newspaper, Die Republik der Arbeiter. These accounts have been almost entirely unknown to scholars, until now. This volume contains Joscelyn Godwin’s translations; introduced, annotated, and illustrated by Peter Hoehnle, bringing Weitling’s descriptions of his communal odyssey to students of American communal societies who cannot read German. Communities visited include: the Shakers at Watervliet, New York; the Community of True Inspiration at Eben-Ezer, New York; the Society of Separatists at Zoar, Ohio; Communia, Iowa; the Icarian Community at Nauvoo, Illinois; Bishop Hill Colony, Illinois; the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania; and Bethel, Missouri. -
Four volumes, 2023.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-35-0 ($150 plus $20 shipping)
The Shakers: A Bibliography comprises more than 17,500 entries for printed materials by and about the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, more commonly called Shakers. This work more than quadruples the number of entries contained in Mary Richmond’s Shaker Literature (1977), the standard bibliography on the Shakers until now. The product of fifteen years of painstaking research by a team of bibliographers, The Shakers: A Bibliography comprehensively documents the written record of this remarkably influential communal Christian sect. Each entry provides publication information, annotation and commentary, and holdings information. Additionally, brief biographies are provided for a number of Shaker authors. The Shakers: A Bibliography provides scholars with a tremendous amount of new source material and information to undergird future research and writing about the United Society.Topic -
American Communal Societies Series, no. 16. 154 pages with illustrations, 2030
ISBN: 978-1-937370-37-4 ($35)
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Redware was the first locally made pottery made during the early years of Euro-American expansion across North America. Utilizing methods and stylistic conventions brought from Europe, redware potters made a variety of household wares such as pitchers, storage jars, jugs, plates, and mugs. Christoph Weber was the master potter of the Harmony Society, a German utopian group founded by religious dissenter Georg Rapp. Working from ca. 1808 to 1853, Weber’s pottery was distributed among the Society’s members and sold to their neighbors. Utilizing documentary sources, archaeological investigations, and analysis of surviving ceramics, this volume paints a detailed picture of Christoph Weber, the different types of pottery he manufactured, and his place in the early nineteenth century origins of the ceramics industry in the United States.
Michael Strezewski is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Indiana. Dr. Strezewski has directed archaeological excavations in New Harmony since 2008, publishing numerous reports and articles on the Harmony Society. -
- From the Editor
- The Factory Debacle: the Shirley Shakers Seriously Overextend Their Talent and Financial Capability by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Using the Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations, and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee to Recover Forgotten Shaker History: a Case in Point from Enfield, Connecticut by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Document: A. J. MacDonald’s Visits to the Shakers
Front cover illustration: Detail of Shirley, Massachusetts, from Henry Francis Walling, Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1856. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, G3763.M5 1856 .M3 Back cover illustration: The Phoenix Mill in 1883 from Seth Chandler, History of the Town of Shirley, Massachusetts. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College
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- From the Editor
- Priests and Martyrs: The Second Engraved Title Page of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror by Jeff Bach
- Document: Ein kleiner Abriss von denen Irr- und Abwegen, derer von Gott gerufenen Seelen by Ezechiel Sangmeister
- “Eat, and drink, and be merry”: A Clash Over the Opening of a Benedictine Brewery in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America by Philip Chivily
- The Unfortunate Shaker Cemetery at Watervliet, Ohio by Richard Spence
Front cover illustration: The second engraved title page of the Martyr’s Mirror. Courtesy of the Muddy Creek Farm Library. Back cover illustration: Detail from the second engraved title page of the Martyr’s Mirror. Courtesy of the Muddy Creek Farm Library.
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- From the Editor
- Brother Philemon Stewart as Church Family Physician: Re-imagining a Portion of His “toiling, stormy, industrious, valuable life” by Kerry Hackett
- First in the West: The Shaker Experience of Visionary Malcham Worley and His Family by Christian Goodwillie
- Motive, Means, and Opportunity: Ayer Shutterbugs Shoot the Shakers by Ned Quist
- The Changing Face of Shaker Life: How Pictorial Images in the Popular Press Reflect the Growing Acceptance of the Shakers in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert P. Emlen
Front cover illustration: Charles Kennison, photographer. Rural Home, 1896. Courtesy of the Ayer Library.
Back cover illustration: “Main House at Shaker Village, KY,” in Collins’ Historical Sketches, 1847. -
Shaker Studies, no. 18. 242 pages, 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-30-5 ($65)
In the mid-nineteenth century, both Shaker sacred texts and gift drawings were rich with theological arguments for the millennial vision of a heaven celebrating the Heavenly Father and Holy Mother Wisdom and of a communal society embodying its teachings in celibacy and peace. This richly-illustrated, full color volume, explores these Shaker visions of the divine. (Click title for more)Topic -
- From the Editor
- An Uncharted Union: The Shakers and the Amana Inspirationists by Peter Hoehnle Shaker Correspondence with the Amana Society: Charles Julius Preter and Ezra T. Stewart
- Mother Elinor and the God House by Julienna Frost
Front cover illustration: Ann O’Delia Diss Debar, who used various aliases during her life of crime, including “Mother Elinor.” Back cover illustration: Middle Eben-Ezer, one of the four communal villages established by the Inspirationists in New York State, as it appeared around the time of their first contact with the Shakers. Hand colored lithograph by Joseph Prestele, Sr. (Amana Heritage Society)
