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American Communal Societies Quarterly (ACSQ)


This quarterly periodical includes scholarly articles and reprints of important historical documents. Randall L. Ericson serves as editor of the ACSQ.

To subscribe, contact April Caprak, 315-859-4475, acaprak@hamilton.edu.

Preview Issue, September 2006 (View cover)

Table of Contents
  • From the Editor
  • Introducing the Richard W. Couper Press
  • William Scales' 1789 "Mystery of the People Called Shakers"
    - Introduction by David D. Newell
    - Reprint of Scales' article
  • News and Notes, by Walter A. Brumm
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    - The Shaker Manifesto Digitized
    - New Acquisitions by Hamilton College Library's Communal Societies Collection
Vol. 1, no. 1 - January 2007 (View cover)

Table of Contents
  • From the Editor
  • The Road From Harmony, by Eileen Aiken English
  • Mother Luc's Last Visit to Watervliet
    - Introduction by David D. Newell
    - Reprint of manuscript
  • A Sampling of Rare Shaker Broadsides, by Christian Goodwillie
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    - Hamilton College Library's Special Collections: An Overview
    - Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Volume 1, no.2 - April 2007 (View cover)

Table of Contents
  • From the Editor
  • The Copley-Lyman Shaker Family of Enfield, Connecticut: An Annotated Genealogy, by M. Stephen Miller
  • Michigan's Siberia: The House of David on High Island, by Clare E. Adkin, Jr.
  • News and Notes, by Walter A. Brumm
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    - Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
  • News from the Communal Studies Association
Volume 1, no.3 – July 2007 (View cover)

Table of Contents
  • From the Editor
  • Sally Dean and Her Letter to "Respected Friend Phineas"
    - Introduction by Glendyne Wergland
    - Reprint of letters
  • The Shaker Leaf Song: Solving a Perplexing Puzzle, by Roger L. Hall
  • Church of Christ unto a People in Kentucky
    - Introduction by Ralph Stenstrom
    - Reprint of document
  • Comment
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    Hamilton College Acquires The Shaker Messenger Archive
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Volume 1, no. 4 – October 2007 (View cover)

Table of Contents
  • From the Editor
  • Shaker Seminar 2007: South Union and Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, by Christian Goodwillie
  • A Meeting of Angels: Thomas Merton and the Shakers, by Paul M. Pearson
  • "Dear Friend and Sister": Laura Holloway-Langford and the Shakers, by Diane Sasson
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
    Richard W. Couper Press
Volume 2, no. 1 - January 2008 (View cover)

Table of contents

  • From the Editor
  • "The Mythical Structure is Created": Planning and Construction of the Center Family Dwelling House, Mount Lebanon, 1856-1868, by Lauren A Stiles
  • From Bishop Hill to Pleasant Hill: The Swedish Shaker Experience, by John E. Norton
  • News and Notes, by Walter A. Brumm
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Volume 2, no. 2 - April 2008 (View cover)

Table of contents

  • From the Editor
  • The Shaker Peace Conference of 1905: Witness and Hope at the North Family of Mount Lebanon, by Stephen Paterwic
  • Eros and its Discontents: The Israelite House of David and Their Almost Eden,  by Shannon McRae
  • News and Notes, by Walter A. Brumm
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Volume 2, no. 3 - July 2008 (View cover)
Front cover illustration: [Stereoview: detail] Group of Shakers. [Group of seventeen Sisters and Brothers from the Mount Lebanon North Family of Shakers in front of the 1818 North Family dwelling house].

Table of contents

  • From the Editor
  • "Late Recruits for Britain": Anti-Shaker Propaganda During the American Revolution
    Introduction by David D. Newell
    Reprint of the 1782 Dialogue
  • Harmonisches Gesangbuch 1827: The Hymnal of a Religious Community in Early Nineteenth-Century America, by Hedwig T. Durnbaugh
  • From the Russells to the Pilots: The Beginning and End of North Union, by Cathie Winans
  • Two Publications of Interest
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Volume 2, no. 4 - October 2008 (View cover)
Front cover illustration: [Advertising Broadside] Shaker Sarsaparilla.

Table of contents

  • From the Editor
  • Shaker Seminar 2008, by Christian Goodwillie
  • Putting Sodus Shaker Village on the Map, by Walter Brumm
  • New Lebanon's Gifts to the Western New York Shakers, by Stephen J. Paterwic
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Volume 3, no. 1 - January 2009 (View cover)
Front cover illustration: A Sketch of the Experience of Solomon Chamberlin..., 1829

Table of contents

  • From the Editor
  • Celebrating and Sacralizing Viiolence: Testimonies Concerning Ann Lee and the Early Shakers, by Stephen J. Stein
  • "Rather Than Ever Milk Again": Shaker Sisters' Refusal to Milk at Mount Lebanon and Watervliet -- 1873-1877, by Lauren A. Stiles
  • The Abuse of Spirit Messages during the Shaker Era of Manifestations: "A hard time of it in this hurrycane of gifts, to know what is revelation and what is not," by Glendyne Wergland
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Volume 3, no. 2 - April 2009 (View cover)
Front cover illustration: A composite image taken from the front and back covers of <em>Cellular Cosmogony</em> (Chicago: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1899). This work is the major theological and scientific statement of Koreshan Unity. 

Table of contents

  • From the Editor
  • Watervliet Shakers through the Eyes of Oneida Perfectionists, 1863-1875 by Anthony Wonderley
  • Heaven is a Hollow Earth: The Shaker-Koreshan Connection by Christian Goodwillie
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"  Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions 
Volume 3, no. 3 - July 2009 (View cover)
Front cover illustration: Ambrotype image of an unidentified Shaker sister, 1850. Among the earliest known images of a Shaker..., by a photographer named Campbell.

Table of contents

  • From the Editor
  • Conflict and Tribulation on the Frontier: The West Union Shakers and Their Retreat, by Carol Medlicott
  • William Adee Whitehead's Visit to the Shakers, Introduction by Elizabeth and Scott De Wolfe [Reprint of Text]
  • Letter from Fichard McNemar, Introduction by Christian Goodwillie [Reprint of Text]
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    A New Publication for the Couper Press
    Review of Robert White Jr.: "Spreading the Light of the Gospel." By Stephen J. Paterwic
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

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