| American Women's History: A Research Guide Communal Societies |
Please note that this section is in the initial stages of development.
BibliographiesDare, Philip N. American Communes to 1860: Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1990. 203p. Goodin, John, comp. Communal Studies Bibliography [online]. 2000 [cited 29 May 2001]. Available from: http://library.luther.edu/pages/csabibsz.htm. Miller, Timothy. American Communes, 1860-1960: A Bibliography.
New York: Garland, 1990. 583p.
EncyclopediasFogarty, Robert S. Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian
History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. 271p. Trahair, Richard C.S. Utopias and Utopians: A Historical
Dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. 480p.
Historical Overviews & Edited Colllections of EssaysChmielewski, Wendy E., Louis J. Kern, and Marylyn Klee-Harzell, eds.
Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United
States. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993. 275p. Journals in the FieldPreserving America's Utopian Dream [online]. CRM Online. 24, no. 9 (2001). This issue includes articles about Brook Farm, Rugby, New Harmony, Oneida, and other communities. Utopian
Studies
[http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/journal/index.html]
Networking with PeopleCenter for Communal Studies, University of Southern Indiana [http://www.usi.edu/libarts/communal/publications.htm] Communal Studies Association [http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/CSA/] H-Communal Societies [http://www.h-net.org/~commsoc/] Society for Utopian
Studies [http://www.utoronto.ca/utopia/]
Primary Sources: Archival CollectionsPrimary Sources: Digital CollectionsDublin, Thomas, and Kathryn Kish Sklar. Women and Social Movements in
the United States, 1830-1930 [online]. 1997- [cited 4 May 2001].
Available from: http://womhist.binghamton.edu. The
Oneida Community Collection in the Syracuse University Library
[online]. Syracuse, N.Y.:Dept. of Special Collections, [Syracuse
University Library, 1999- . Primary Sources: Microform CollectionsThe Brook Farm Papers, 1842-1861. Boston: Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1978. 1 microfilm reel. Hopedale Community Books, Pamphlets, Serials, and Manuscripts, 1821-1938. Glen Rock, N.J. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1976. 6 microfilm reels. The Shaker Collection of the Western Reserve Historical
Society. [Glen Rock, N.J.]: Microfilming Corporation of America,
1977. Primary Sources: Selected BooksDeBruyn, John R., ed. Dissipations at Uffington House: The Letters of Emily Hughes, Rugby, Tennessee, 1881-1887. Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University Press, 1976. 80p. Reviewed in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 1977): 115-17. Dwight, Marianne. Letters from Brook Farm 1844-1847. Edited by Amy L. Reed. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1928. 191p. Noyes, George Wallingford, comp., and Lawrence Foster, ed. Free
Love in Utopia: John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida
Community. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 370p.
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