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Volume 6, no. 3 - July 2012

Table of Contents

  • The Richmond Family and the Shakers, by Stephen J. Paterwic
  • Communal Vegetarianism: the Sacred Diet of Mary's City of David, by Julieanna Frost
  • Johann Christoph Müller: Harmonist Pioneer, Composer, and Apostate, by Emily Lapisardi
Front cover illustration: Purnell, Mary. The Comforter: The Mother's Book, Benton Harbor, Mich.: Israelite House of David, [1908]-1912.

Volume 6, no. 2 - April 2012

Table of Contents

  • Daniel Pierce Thompson and "The Shaker Lovers": Portraying the Shakers in Fiction and on the Stage, by Brian L. Bixby and Jill Mudgett
  • "The mighty hand of overruling providence": The Shaker Claim to America, by Jane F. Crosthwaite
  • A Treasury of Shaker Ephemera Rediscovered at the Western Reserve Historical Society, by Christian Goodwillie
Front cover illustration: Handbills announcing the new postal address for Mount Lebanon.

Volume 6, no. 1 - January 2012

Table of Contents

  • Brother Ricardo Belden Revisited, by Magda Gabor-Hotchkiss
  • The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers.
  • Part Three: "Calvin" versus "A Lover of Truth," Abusing Caleb Rathbun, the Death of Joseph Meacham and the Tale of His Sister, by Christian Goodwillie
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes" - Conservation of the Earliest Known Shaker Architectural Image: The Ambrotype of the South Family, Harvard, Massachusetts

Volume 5, no. 4 - October 2011

Table of Contents

  • The Harvard Shaker Cemetery, by Roben Campbell
  • The Tribulations of the White Water Shakers: The Child Molestation Trial of 1840, by Thomas Sakmyster
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes" - Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Shaker Buying Ground, Harvard, Mass. The picture shows the Harvard Shaker cemetery with both stone and metal markers.

Volume 5, no. 3 - July 2011

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • Peter Ayers, Defender of the Faith, by Galen Beale
  • Making the Bible Argument: John H. Noyes' Mission Statement for the Oneida Community, by Anthony Wonderley
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes" - New Publications from Richard W. Couper Press
Front cover illustration: Garden seeds, raised at New Lebanon, New York, printed by Packard & Van Benthusen, between 1816 and 1824.

Volume 5, no. 2 - April 2011

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • How the Harmonists Suffered Disharmony: Schism in Communal Utopias, by Donald E. Pitzer
  • The Story of Brother Ricardo’s Song, by Darryl Charles Thompson
  • Pilgrims and Martyrs: The Engraved Title Page of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror, by Jeff Bach
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    • Reopening the Rare Book Room
    • Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Detail from the engraved title page of Martyrer-Spiegel der Tauffs-gesinnten, druckts und verlegts der Brüderschaft in Euphrata (The Martyr's Mirror).

Volume 5, no. 1 - January 2011

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • "Freedom of the Press is Guaranteed Only to those Who Own the Presses," by Henry M. Yaple
  • Two Early Photographs of Amana, by Peter Hoenle
  • The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers
  • Part Two: Voyages of the Shaker Ship and Other Adventures, both Legal and Social, by Christian Goodwillie
  • Richard W. Couper Press order form
Front cover illustration: Amana Society. Indigo Blue. Prints. [Product label]. 1890s.

Volume 4, no. 4 - October 2010

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • Black Shaker Minstrels and the Comic Performance of Shaker Worship, by Robert P. Emlen
  • Medical Practice in the Harvard Shaker Church Family 1834-1843, by Merry B. Post
  • Shaker Seminar 2010
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes" - Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Detail from "The Celebrated Black Shaker Song." Wood engraving on paper, 1855. Collection of the John Hay Library, Brown University.

Volume 4, no. 3 - July 2010

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • "We Live at a Great Distance from the Church": Cartographic Strategies of the Shakers, 1805-1835, by Carol Medlicott
  • The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers
  • Part One: "From a Spirit of Detraction and Slander" by Christian Goodwillie
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
Front cover illustration: "General View of our Journey and of Several States" map from the Youngs/Kendall collection, collection of the Library of Congress.

Volume 4, no. 2 - April 2010

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • The History of the Shaker Gathering Order, by Stephen J. Paterwic
  • The Mob at Enfield, Introduction by Elizabeth De Wolfe, and A Statement Concerning the Mob at Enfield
  • The Shakers of Canterbury: Their Agriculture and Their Machinery, by Elizabeth Gleason Bervy
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    • Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
    • News from Richard W. Couper Press
Front cover illustration: House of David Jellies and Jams [Product label], 1950s.

Volume 4, no. 1 - January 2010

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • Strangers Along the Trail: Peoria's Shaker Apostates Enter the World, by Patricia L. Goitein
  • Benn Pitman's "Visit to the Shaker Settlement--Whitewater Village, O.", Introduction by David D. Newell
  • "Cummings and Goings": The Impact of Shakerism on the Family of Edward T. Cummings, by Mary Ann Haagen
  • Remembering Gus Kermes, by Sandra A. Soule
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"
    • Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1859 Goes to Press
    • Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: The Ballance Family, ca. 1852, oil on canvas, by James Wilkins in Peoria, Illinois. Table of contents

Volume 3, no. 4 - October 2009

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • Shaker Seminar 2009: Enfield and Canterbury, N.H., by Christian Goodwillie
  • Daughter of the Shakers: The Story of Eleanor Brooks Fairs, by Johanne Grewell
  • Birth, Life, and Death of Olive Branch, 1896-1924, by Rev. Vernon Squire
  • Remembering Gus Kermes, by Sandra A. Soule
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes" - Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: A caricature by an artist named Korman drawn between 1910 and 1921. Illustrated are Hancock Shakers Alexander and Ritcho Pettiff, Gladys Smith, and Trustee Frances Hall.

Volume 3, no. 3 - July 2009

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 Richard 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
Front cover illustration: Ambrotype image of an unidentified Shaker sister, 1850. Among the earliest known images of a Shaker..., by a photographer named Campbell.

Volume 3, no. 2 - April 2009

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • Watervliet Shakers through the Eyes of Oneida Perfectionists, 1863-1875 by Anthony Wonderley
  • Heaven in a Hollow Earth: The Shaker-Koreshan Connection by Christian Goodwillie
  • Hamilton College Library "Home Notes" - Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: A composite image taken from the front and back covers of Cellular Cosmogony (Chicago: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1899).

Volume 3, no. 1 - January 2009

Table of Contents

  • From the Editor
  • Celebrating and Sacralizing Violence: 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
Front cover illustration: A Sketch of the Experience of Solomon Chamberlin..., 1829

Volume 2, no. 4 - October 2008

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
Front cover illustration: Shaker Sarsaparilla [Advertising Broadside].

Volume 2, no. 3 - July 2008

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
Front cover illustration: 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]. [Stereoview: detail]

Volume 2, no. 2 - April 2008

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. 1 - January 2008

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

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