American Communal Societies Quarterly Publications
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- From the Editor
- The Shaker Meetinghouse: 230 Years of Worship, Tourism, and Preservation by Christian Goodwillie
- The White Water, Ohio, Shaker Community: A Newly Discovered 1877 Visitor's Account by Thomas Sakmyster
- The Shakers. A Day with the Communists of the Whitewater Valley. Westliche Blatter (May 22, 1877)
- A Photograph of the 1908 Print Shop at the Israelite House of David by Brian Ziebart
- Portraits: Sister Mary Purnell and Brother Benjamin Purnell
Front cover illustration: Brother Hiram Baker and his bicycle in the meeting room of the 1793 meetinghouse at Enfield, New Hampshire. Salt print by Lewis Johnson, August 1902. Courtesy of Robert P. Emlen. Back cover illustration: Print Shop, Israelite House of David, prior to the 1908 fire that destroyed the building. Courtesy of the Israelite House of David.
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July and October 2019
- From the Editor
- A Short History of the Columbian Phalanx by Julieanna Frost
- Document: "A Journal of a Journey from Canterbury to Enfield [Connecticut]" introduced and edited by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Why Historians Should Examine Shaker Novels and Short Stories: Exposing Century-Old Misconceptions of Shaker Life by Richard Marshall
- Personal Visits and Observations: Charles Nordhoff's Remarkable Tour of American Communal Societies by Peter Hoehnle
Front and back cover illustrations from: J.F. Witherell, ed., The Anti-Millerite and Scriptural Expositor (Concord, N.H.: 1843).
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- From the Editor
- Shaker Brothers in the Spirit: The Exchange of Ideas and Spiritual Gifts between Seth Youngs Wells and Calvin Green by Jane F. Crosthwaite
- Document: "A Beautiful Box of Gifts and Emblems of Presence Given to Calvin Green as a Token of Eternal Blessings....Copied November 25th 1847"
- "Blacksmith by Trade" : The Journey of African- American Shaker Justinian Cartwright by Rebekah Brummett
- Document: An Account of an American Commune in the Soviet Union during the 1920s by Arthur B. Ruhl
Front and back cover illustrations: "A Beautiful Box of Gifts and Emblems of Presence Given to Calvin Green as a Token of Eternal Blessings....Copied November 25th 1847." Canterbury Shaker Village Archives, #788.
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- From the Editor
- Utopia, Ohio, 1844-1847: Seedbed for Three Experiments in Communal Living by Cori L. Flatt and Peter A. Hoehnle
- From Württemberg to Zoar: Origins of a Separatist Community by Eberhard Fritz
- Document: Questioning of the Separatists of Rottenacker after the Quartering of a Military Command, May 1804
- Document: Visitor's Account of the Shaker Community at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, by Clara von Gerstner
Front cover illustration: A Separatist star, the only one known to exist in Württemberg. It is attached to a document in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart. Courtesy of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart A 213 Bü 3091 Back cover illustration: Clermont Phalanx, as painted by A.J. MacDonald. Courtesy of the Beinecke Library, Yale University, GEN MSS 1394.
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July and October 2018
- Gentile's Invitation to Shiloh, House of David by Henry M. Yaple
- Descriptive Bibliography of Imprints in the House of David Collection by Shannon McRae and Brian Ziebart
- The Quest for 392 by Brian Ziebart
Front cover illustration: The Star of Bethlehem. 2nd. ed. Book 1. 1903 M-048. Collection of the Israelite House of David Back cover illustration: Information for Excurstionists!. ca. 1910. M-007. Collection of the Israelite House of David.
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- “Hope on - work ever”: The Valley Forge Community and the Shakers by Stephen Paterwic
- List of People from the Valley Forge Community who Joined the Shakers compiled by Stephen Paterwic
- Natural Man Illumined: Johann Gichtel’s Mystical Figures at Ephrata by Nick Siegert
Front cover illustration: Jacob Martin, Mystical Figure (ca. 1760’s?) (Courtesy of Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Ephrata Cloister.)
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- From the Editor
- The Success and Failure of Oneida Community Architecture by Kevin Coffee
- Document: Reasons For Uniting with the people called Shakers: Comprised in a short sketch of the Author’s Religious Exercises, and a brief Statement of the Peculiar Doctrines and Practices of that People, by Proctor Sampson
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes” Communal Societies Collection New Acquisitions, by Mark Tillson
Front cover illustration: The Oneida Community Mansion House. (Courtesy of the Oneida Community Mansion House.)
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- From the Editor
- Perils, Gold and Yellow: Cyrus Teed’s The Great Red Dragon by Adam Morris
- Shrill Echoes from the Hollow Earth: Transgressive Intellectualism and Inner Earth Utopia by Holly Folk
- Document: Diary of Virginia H. Andrews of a visit to Mount Lebanon, New York, Shaker community, 1892
- Document: Certificate of Ordination of Cyrus Reed Teed in the Mount Lebanon, New York, Shaker community, 1892
Front cover illustration: Koreshans posing on the set of their play “The Yellow Peril,” 1908. Koreshan Unity collection N2009- 3, Papers, ca 1887-1990; Box 15, KOR1985A, State Library and Archives of Florida.
Rear cover illustration: Koreshan Unity Sculpture. Koreshan Unity collection N2009- 3, Papers, ca 1887-1990; Box 6, folder 2, KOR2259A, State Library and Archives of Florida.
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- From the Editor
- Abijah Alley of Long Hollow: Preacher, Shaker Apostate, and Backwoods Prophet of the American South by Nancy Gray Schoonmaker and Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
Front cover illustration: Know Thyself! Lectures on Phrenology by Dr. J. P. M’Lean… [New York]: Office of the “Phrenological Journal,” 389 Broadway. S. R. Wells, Publisher, [c. 1870]. See Home Notes section for more information.
Rear cover illustration: The front wrapper of the February 1879 issue of Phrenological Journal and Science of Health. -
- From the Editor
- One Bound Volume, Two Shaker Sisters, and a Liberal Preacher by Sandra A. Soule
- Awaiting the Second Coming in the Piney Woods: The New House of Israel by Julieanna Frost
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
Front cover illustration: Mazdaznan 14, no. 8 (August 1915). Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College.
Back cover illustration: Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish (born Otto Hanisch), founder of the Mazdaznan movement. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College.
