American Communal Societies Quarterly 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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- 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. -
- 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) -
- From the Editor
- Earliest Known Photograph of Zoar Separatists by Wm. B. Becker
- Facsimile: The Childhood Days of Salwt, the Messenger to the 7th Church in Israel, and the Only 7th Messenger in the World by Daniel Salwt, [ca. 1925]
Front cover illustration: Unidentified photographer, Michael, Joseph, and Johanna
Miller, Zoar Separatists. Sixth-plate daguerreotype (2.75 x 3.25 inches), Wm. B.
Becker Collection Back cover illustration: J. C. Haring (active Masillon, Ohio), Michael J. Miller
late in life, reading. Cabinet card, 1880s. Courtesy Ohio History Connection,
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- From the Editor
- Reconsidering the Shaker Tree of Life: Cultural Antecedents & Fresh Interpretations by Carol Medlicott
- An Attempt to Have a Law Enacted by the General Court in Boston to Allow Heirs to Inherit Property Previously Dedicated to the Shakers by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Document One: Citizens of York County, Maine, Petition to the General Court of Massachusetts, May 1817
- Document Two: Sabbathday Lake, Maine, Shakers’ Letter to the General Court of Massachusetts, January 2, 1818
- Document Three: Massachusetts’ Shaker Communities’ Letter to the General Court of Massachusetts, January 1818
Front cover illustration: The Tree of Life (New York: Kelloggs & Thayer, 1845 or 1846). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Back cover illustration: “Central Part of Pittsfield, Mass,” Drawn by J. W. Barber, Engraved by S. E. Brown, Boston. From John Warner Barber, Massachusetts Historical Collections (Worcester: Published by Dorr, Howland & Co., 1839).
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- From the Editor
- The Harvard Shakers’ Mill on Bennett’s Brook by Ned Quist
- Shaking the Faith at Twenty-Five: Reflections on Shaker Research in the Digital Age by Elizabeth DeWolfe
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. the Harvard Shakers by Cynthia Barton
- The South Family of the Hancock Shakers, circa 1818-1849 by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Elwin E. Damkohler’s Account of the Koreshan Unity
Front cover illustration: Bennett’s Brook Mill in 1896. Detail of photo by William A. Wright, April 6, 1896. Courtesy of the Trustees of Reservations, Archives and Research Center. Back cover illustration: The Bennett’s Brook Mill looking northeast from the Mill Pond's south shore. Photo by Harrison E. Evans, June 1, 1907. Courtesy of the Ayer Library, Ayer, Mass.
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- From the Editor
- "A great blessing to mankind!": The Medicated Vapour Bath at the Shaker Community of New Lebanon by Kerry Hackett
- Mothers and Daughters at White Water Shaker Village by Thomas Sakmyster
- Six Scenes from the Sixties by Tom Fels
Front cover illustration: Tony Matthews relaxing on the front steps, Montague Farm. Photo: Laura Bradley. Collection of the author. Back cover illustration: Milking time: writer Jesse Kornbluth and farmer Tony Matthews, Montague, 1969. Photo: Tom Fels. Collection of the author.
