Publications
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Shaker Studies, no. 10. 69 pages, with 44 illustrations, 2015.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-16-9 ($25)
The collection assembles for the first time the rich body of visual images depicting the Shakers during the Era of Manifestations.Topic -
From the Editor
Three Months with the Shakers—II
Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: A patriotic drawing from Charles Frederick Crosman, Manuscript Journal 1856-1866. See pp. 225-27. -
From the Editor
The Tate Family of Shakers and Non-Shakers by M. Stephen Miller
The Rise and Fall of Prince Michael Mills and the Detroit Jezreelites by Julieanna Frost
Three Months with the Shakers—I
Front cover illustration: Michael Mills, self-proclaimed seventh messenger, seated in front of Jezreel’s tower. (Courtesy of The Panacea Charitable Trust) -
- From the Editor
- Lunacy and Dissent Among the Shakers by Tom Sakmyster
- The Nurturing Communities Project: Fostering Persistence and Emergence in Intentional Christian Communities by Margie DeWeese-Boyd
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Front cover of the January 1907 issue of The Flaming Sword, a publication of Koreshan Unity, published by The Guiding Star Publishing House in Estero, Fla.
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Shaker Studies, no. 9. 311 pages, with 90 b/w illustrations, 22 music scores, 9 poems, and 9 maps, 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-12-1 ($30)
This work is a comprehensive examination of the history and life of White Water Village by leading experts on the community. As an offshoot of Union Village, the “mother” of Ohio Shaker communities, White Water has received scant attention in the past. This work rectifies the situation and serves as an example of what should be done for all of the Shaker communities.Topic -
American Communal Societies Series, no. 9. 161 pages, with 19 b/w illustrations, 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-14-5 ($15)
The first biography of Mary Purnell who along with her husband Benjamin, led the Israelite House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Mary later formed her own community, Mary’s City of David. Both communities are functioning today. The communities are best known for their bearded baseball teams, but, as Frost’s book shows, they were only a small part of the story. -
Shaker Studies, no. 8. 97 pages, illustrations, 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-10-7 ($35)
Stark images and inspired messages appear in Shaker cut-and-fold booklets, one of the more unusual forms of gift drawings created in the early 1840s during the Shakers’ internal revival known as Mother’s Work. This study unfolds some of the puzzling aspects of these heavenly communications. The Shaker concept of union is embodied in the mysteriously decorated, interleaved sheets bearing prophetic spiritual messages. New findings about the visionary activities of Emily Babcock point to her as the instrument of these uniquely constructed gift drawings. This volume features full color facsimiles of a number of examples.Topic -
- From the Editor
- Zion’s Whistleblowers: Reflections on Shaker Apostate and Anti-Shaker Writings
- & Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850: An Expanded Table of Contents with Annotations and Notes by Carol Medlicott
- A Postscript to Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850: New Light on Benjamin West, William Scales, Benjamin Green, and Zebulon Huntington by Christian Goodwillie
Front cover illustration: Benjamin Green, Shaker apostate from Enfield, New Hampshire. This image probably dates to c.1860. This version was sourced from the article by Frank West Rollins, “The Old North End: Concord,” Granite Monthly 22, no. 6 (June 1897): 337.
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- From the Editor
- “Virtual Communities”: The Anarchist Press at Home, Washington by Holly Folk
- Insights into Harvard Shaker History by Michael Volmar
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Detail of the woodcut showing the main hall of the Boston Temple from the front cover of The Law and Method of Spirit-Culture. See pp. 195-97.
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- From the Editor
- The Role of Women in Hopedale, a Nineteenth-Century Universalist-Unitarian Utopian Community in South-Central Massachusetts By Deirdre Corcoran Stam
- “Father retains his love of Shakerdom”: The Journals of Wendell P. Elkins, 1874-1929 By Galen Beale
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- House of David Basketball Team Photos By Mark Tillson
Front cover illustration: Detail of a picture showing House of David basketball player Bob Hallisey, the team captain, in a warmup for a game played in Sitka, Alaska, on February 11, 1950. See pages 155-60 for more information.
