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Museums and Libraries located on the sites of Shaker villages

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Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village [1]
Canterbury Shaker Village [2]
The Enfield, Connecticut Shakers-a Research Project (CMNH) [3]
Hancock Shaker Village [4]
The Berkshire web Map-shows relationship between Pittsfield (Hancock), Tyringham and Savoy [5] Click on their names located on the map.
Fruitlands Museums [6] Located half way between two Shaker village sites: Harvard and Shirley, Massachusetts.
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon, N.Y. & Old Chatham [7]
Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, N.Y. [8]
Shaker Heritage Society, Albany, N.Y. [9]
PWWMH-Watervliet Shaker Historical District, Albany, N.Y. [10] Go to
PWWMH-Harvard Shaker Village Historical District [11] Go to
Shaker Historical Society & Museum, Shaker Heights, Ohio [12]
Shaker Museum, Shaker Heights, Ohio [13]
The Enfield Shaker Museum, Enfield, NEW HAMPSHIRE [14]
Pleasant Hill Shaker Village, K.Y. [15]
Pleasant Hill, Kentucky-Map and general info [16]
Another Site about Pleasant Hill [17]
The Holy Mount at Pleasant Hill [18]
Shaker Museum at South Union, Kentucky [19]
The Shaker Trustees' Building [20] perserved at Genesee County Museum, N.Y.
Sodus Bay Shaker Festival, Alasa Farm-Western N.Y. State [21] The Sodus Bay Shaker Festival is bi-annual.

English Dissenters and Millenarians:

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ExLibris: English Dissenters [22]  An incredibly informative site that covers the English dissenters prior and during the Civil War in England as well as the Interregnum. Includes: Adamites, Anabaptists, Baptists, Barrowists, Behmenists, Brownists, Diggers, Familists, Fifth Monarchists, Free-Will Men, Grindletonians, Jacobites, Levellers, Lollards, Muggletonians, Puritans, Quakers, Ranters and Seekers.
Mary's City of David Home Page [23]  This community is located at Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Israelite Movement looks back to Joanna Southcott, the First Messenger, 1792, Devonshire, England. They claim to be the second oldest communal order in America after the Shakers.
Joanna Southcott [24]   and the Panacea Society.  A good book about her is:
The Anglo-Israelites [25]  believe that the modern Anglo-Saxons are the direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.  All Anglo-Israelite groups look back to Richard Brothers (1757-1824) who called himself "Prince of the Hebrews and Nephew of the Almighty."
Christian Israelite Church [26]  traces its roots back to John Wroe of Yorkshire, England, 1782-1863, who is often called the British Joseph Smith.

English Dissenters-The Puritans in England and New England:

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The Puritan Page [27]   Theology from a Bunch of Dead Guys:  The Hall of Church History.
Fire and Ice:  Puritan and Reformed Writings [28]
Jonathan Edwards On-Line [29]

English Dissenters-The Society of Friends (Quakers):

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The Religious Society of Friends [30]  An truly awesome site!
The Quakers in Brief [31]  An excellent introduction to Quakerism by David M. Murray-Rust  of the Birkenhead Meeting, Merseyside, UK.
Quaker Information Center [32]  Located at Friends Center in Philadelphia, Pa.
American Friends Service Committee [33]   The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. Its work is based on the Quaker belief in the worth of every person, and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice.
The Quaker Collection at Haverford College [34]   Friends have published a great deal in the past three centuries, and Haverford has attempted to collect as much of this material as possible. There are more than 32,000 printed titles on the shelves, not including thousands of pamphlets, clippings and other ephemeral material. In addition, there are over 250,000 Quaker items in the manuscript collection.
Friends Historical Association [35]   The Friends Historical Association is an association devoted to the study, preservation and publication of material relating to the history of the Religious Society of Friends. Founded in Philadelphia in 1873, FHA has become an organization that is international in membership and interests and which anyone, Friend or not, is invited to join. The Annual Meeting in the Fall, and an historical pilgrimage in the Spring to an area associated with the history of Quakerism are important activities of the Association.
The Quaker Corner [36]   This is a family genealogy site, but, is full of information about Quakerism.
George Amoss's Quaker Electronic Archive & Meeting Place [37]   This site, the first general-purpose Quaker archive on the Internet, contains Quaker writings and other documents such as minutes and resource guides, as well as a message board and chat rooms in which Friends and friends are welcome to meet and worship together. The archive offers a keyword search function, and links to other sites of interest to Friends are also provided.
Quaker Web Ring [38]   Twenty-two sites.
Places Where Women Made History-Jemima Wilkinson House [39] Go to
Unruly Women [40]   "Biographies from Early America:  Unruly Women:  Jemima Wilkinson and Deborah Sampson Gannett" by James Henretta.

The Anabaptist-Pietist Traditions:

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Church of the Bretheren Network [41]    Their European Origins.  Good introduction.
Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf [42] & the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum).

The Methodists:

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[43]  A book, study guide and web site.  A good introduction to Methodism.
Sermons of John Wesley [44]  Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Wheaton College.
A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists, John Wesley, M.A. [45]  Some- time Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, England.

Barton Stone-Alexander Campbell Restoration Movement:

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Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement Resources [46] Barton Stone was the primary minister at Cane Ridge during the Great Revival in Kentucky, the center of the Second Great Awakening.
Restoration Resources [47] More Stone-Campbell
Restoration Movement Pages [48] Even more Stone-Campbell
Old Cane Ridge Meeting-House [49] and
Historical Events in Early American Presbyterianism [50] Information about "The Kentucky Revival or the Second Great Awakening" taken from the
Early American Presbyterians -- M [51] Scroll down to "Rev. Richard McNemar". Info taken from the
Early American Presbyterians -- D [52] Scroll down to "Rev. John Dunlavy". Info taken from the
Barton W. Stone Short Autobiography [53] In chapters 7 through 9, Stone discusses Richard McNemar and John Dunlevy, the Kentucky Revival and the coming of the Shaker missionaries from New Lebanon, N.Y.

Emanuel Swedenborg and the Church of the New Jerusalem:

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The New Earth Swedenborg BBS [54]  Everything you ever wanted to know about Swedenborgianism.
The Swedenborg Foundation [55]  Non-profit book publisher and educational site.
The Swedenborgian Church [56]  Located in Newton, Massachusetts.  Informative site.  Good links.

The French Prophets-The Camisards:

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Le Musee du Desert-Camisards Museum [57]  In a typical hamlet in the Cevennes Mountains, inside the Camisard Chief Rolland's birth place, is a museum dedicated to the "Desert" period (1685-1787), from the repeal of the Edict of Nantes to the Edict of Tolerance and the Camisard War.
[58]   French movie make in 1970 about the Camisard guerrilla war against the royal French troops.   The Huguenot/Camisard resistance has inspired two French operas,

Other Similar Groups:

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Ephrata Cloister [59] and
Communal Societies:  Alphabetical Listing [60]   Synoptic Index for
Utopo-Genesis:  Introduction to America-as-Utopia [61] by Steve Mizrach, Un. of Florida.
Early Restoration Research & Information Service (Mormon) [62] Section 49-Revelation given through Joseph Smith, Jr., March 1831, at Kirtland, Ohio, addressed to Sidney Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt, and Lemon Copley. These elders were sent on a mission to the Shakers. Copley had been a member of the Society of Shakers but had recently joined the Mormon church. The revelation sets forth the major teachings of the Restoration wherein they differ from those of the Shakers.
Kirtland Temple Historic Center [63] run by the RLDS Church. This little town in Ohio has preserved a number of local sites important in Mormonism. It was from here that the early Mormons sent missionaries to the nearby Shaker Village, now Shaker Heights in Cleveland.
New Harmony, Indiana [64]    Home of the Rapites and the Owenites!
"Communism in Indiana" [65]   An Editorial,
Bruderhof Communities Home Page [66]
OHS/Zoar Village [67] ,Ohio-Society of Separatist of Zoar, founded 1817.
Willkommen!-The Seven Amana Colonies [68]
The Oneida Community [69] by Randall Hillebrand
Artcom Museum Tour: Oneida Community Mansion House [70]
Koreshan Site [71] Take a virtual tour of the Koreshan site.
Florida State Parks - KORESHAN STATE HISTORIC SITE [72]
Cyrus Teed [73] , the founder of Koreshanity.
Abode of the Message [74]    Spiritual Community of the Sufi Order International, guided by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan.  Located at South Family of Mount Lebanon, N.Y.
FATHER DIVINE, MOTHER DIVINE & The International Peace Mission [75]
Shakers guests at the Jubilee Celebration of Father & Mother Divine's Wedding [76]

INDIANA:  

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Indiana Historical Society [77]   Library has Busro, Indiana information.
Shaker#first_hit Lilly Library, University of Indiana, Bloomington] [78] The Byrd Family Papers.

KENTUCKY:

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University of Kentucky Libraries-Margaret I. King Library [79] Special Collections Division has Pleasant Hill materials.
The Filson Club Historical Society-Louisville, Ky [80] Pleasant Hill materials.
Western KU's Kentucky Museum Furniture Collection [81] Located 12 miles from South Union. The collection includes nine examples of Shaker furniture, most notably two candle stands or tripod tables, a sewing desk and two chests of drawers. These pieces were constructed in the more worldly fashion generally characteristic of pieces made in Western Shaker villages.
The Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University [82] Located 12 miles east of South Union Shaker Village. Extensive collection of manuscripts from South Union.

MICHIGAN:

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The Berrien County Historical Association [83]  Berrien Springs, Michigan
William L. Clements Library [84] -University of Michigan

OHIO:

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Western Reserve Historical Society Library [85] , Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. The most extensive collection of Shaker materials in the world. 300,000 pages of manuscripts. A
Dunham Tavern Museum [86] , Cleveland, Ohio- Collection of Shaker Furniture.
Shaker Historical Society-Elizabeth B. Nord Library [87] , Cleveland, Ohio. 39 items.
Miami University [88]    Shaker Collection.
The Shaker Collection at the Dayton-Montgomery Co.Public Library [89] , Dayton, Ohio. Compiled by Elli Bambakidis.
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio-Paul Lawrence Dunbar Library [90] WRHS Shaker collection and LC Shaker collection on microfilm. In
Kettering-Moraine Museum (Watervliet, Ohio Shakers) [91] Collection of furniture from the Watervliet community and two buildings preserved from the site and moved to this location in Moraine, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. See the article about this museum and the Watervliet Shaker Village on our home page.
Warren County Historical Society Museum (Union Village Collection) [92] , Lebanon, Ohio. One of the best collection of Shaker furniture and material culture west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Ohio Historical Society / Resources / Archives-Library [93] Look up Shaker manuscripts and books in the OHS collection through

WISCONSIN:

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Art Museum, Milwaukee [94] Shaker collection in American Folk Art Collection.
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum [95]

CONNECTICUT:

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Connecticut State Library [96] Has a large collection of materials from Enfield, Connecticut.
Yahoo! YP - Enfield Historical Society, Enfield, Connecticut [97] Information about Enfield Shaker site.
New Canaan Historical Society [98]  New Canaan, Connecticut.

MASSACHUSETTS:

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The Shaker Collection at Williams College [99] , Williamstown, Massachusetts. The manuscript portion of the collection includes account books, journals and photographs, and is especially strong in spirit communications and hymnals. The core of the Shaker Collection was donated to the Williams College Library in 1931 by Edward B. Wight, Class of 1907.
Welcome to the Berkshire Athenaeum [100] , Pittsfield, MA. Hancock and other material. Complete set of the
Massachusetts Historical Society [101] , Boston, MA. Books and pamphlets and some manuscripts.
Yahoo! YP - Shirley Historical Society [102] , Shirley, MA. Information about the Shirley Shaker site.
Yahoo! YP - Art Complex Inc At Duxbury [103] Shaker furniture collection.

NEW HAMPSHIRE:

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Dartmouth College:  Baker Library [104] , Hanover, N.H. Books and photographs and a few manuscripts.
Yahoo! YP - Hood Museum Of Art [105] , Hanover, N.H. Collection of Shaker objects.
New Hampshire Historical Society Library Collections [106] Materials from Canterbury and Enfield, New Hampshire.
Eleanor Parmenter Churchill Archive-University of New Hampshire. [107] Eleanor Parmenter arrived at the Canterbury, New Hampshire Shaker Village on June 14, 1926 - six months before her twelfth birthday. She was one of several children who, due to any number of family and social circumstances, lived among the Shakers. While under their guidance, Eleanor Parmenter attended school taught by Sister Marguerite Frost and played with the other children. She cooked, sewed, and did chores alongside the sisters and also participated in the recreational life of the Village.
Other collections in the University of New Hampshire Shaker Collection [108] The David Proper Shaker Manuscript Collection contains over 200 titles of primary and secondary Shaker materials--pamphlets, serials, articles, broad-sides, and posters--as well as over 50 works on utopian-communal life. The collection also contains Proper's personal files with correspondence from six Shakers, catalogs, trustees' reports, and information from various Shaker organizations. In addition to the Manuscript Collection, the David Proper Shaker Book Collection (see Appendix) comprises approximately 150 books, both primary and secondary, on the Shakers and 100 books about utopian communities. The Shaker collection also includes

NEW YORK STATE:

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Shaker Museum and Emma B. King Library at Old Chatham, N.Y. [109] The core of the Library's Shaker manuscript, imprint, and photographic collection was acquired by the Museum's founder, John S. Williams, Sr., directly from the Shakers at Mount Lebanon, New York, Hancock, Massachusetts, and Canterbury, New Hampshire. In 1961, the Shakers' Central Ministry, through the offices of Eldress Emma B. King, for whom the Library was named, designated the Shaker Museum "the official repository of the records of discontinued Shaker Societies."
A Shaker Resource Guide-New York City Public Library [110] A large and comprehensive collection.
Collections of the New York State Historical Museum [111] , Albany, N.Y. The Museum has a large and important Shaker Collection. It was begun in 1926 when the Church Family, Watervliet, Shakers sold their buildings to Albany County for the Ann Lee Home. The Shakers assisted Museum curators in gathering and documenting the materials from that community.
New York State Library [112] , Albany, N.Y. Manuscript collection from Watervliet, N.Y., New Lebanon, Groveland, and Harvard, Massachusetts.
Livingston County Historical Society [113] , Genesceo, N.Y. Home of the famous Groveland Fountain Stone
Groveland, Livingston County, N.Y. [114] Description of the area and mention of the Shakers.
Syracuse University Library [115]   In this library can be found
American Society for Psychical Research [116] , New York City. America's first research group to study psychic and paranormal activity. They have a Shaker collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Art-American Wing [117] A Shaker retiring room from New Lebanon, N.Y.
Hamilton College Library [118]  Clinton, N.Y.  Close to 1,000  Shaker items.
Hofstra University-Special Collections [119]  Joan & Donald E. Axinn Library, West Campus. Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library [120]  Special Collection Department

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, D.C.:

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Library of Congress Home Page [121] Use the LC's catalogue search and enjoy!
Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room Home Page [122] The Library of Congress Shaker Collection is made up of 487 items donated by J.P. MacLean. A microfilm edition and catalogue of the LC Shaker collection on 32 reels is available. A copy of the LC Shaker Collection can be found at Wright State University, Paul Lawrence Dunbar Library.
Library of congress WWW-Z39.50 Gateway [123]
National Gallery of Art - Index of American Design [124] Click on

NORTH CAROLINA:

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Guide to the Cataloged Special Collections-Duke University [125] , William R. Perkins Library
Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [126] Manuscripts Department,

SHAKER AND RELATED MANUSCRIPTS ON LINE:

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Shaker Manuscripts On-Line [127] This site has excerpts from
Richard McNemar Page [128] contains
Information about UMI Research Collections: Shaker Collection, 1723-1952 [129] and

JOURNALS:

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The Union Seminary Quarterly Review [130] Vol. 49, #1-2,
Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association. [131]
"Utopian Studies" Index [132] Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies.
IC Web Site: Communities Magazine [133] Magazine of Intentional Communities.
Religion & American Culture:  A Journal of Interpretation [134]  Published by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

SHAKER MUSIC:

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"Early Shaker Spirituals" [135]    The beauty and grace of Shaker culture is reflected in these authentic songs, rendered by members of the United Society of Shakers of Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
I Hear America Singing [136]
Music Buffs-Shaker Music [137]  Site by Roger Hall.  See photograph of Aaron Copland with Sister Mildred Barker when they met at Shaker Heights, Cleveland, on Nov. 9, 1974.
Gourd Music [138]
Arrangements of Shaker Music-Simple Gifts,Tree of Life,Music on the Mountains [139]
THE SHAKERS by Gail Corbin (Dance Video) [140]
The Boston Camerata: Simple Gifts [141] The Boston Camerata recorded Shaker music in the Meetinghouse at Sabbathday Lake. Samples of music can be played.
The Boston Camerata: Angels [142] An award winning CD. Shaker selections.
The Boston Camerata: Online Newsletter [143] Sabbathday Lake Shakers sing with
Norumbega Harmony [144] Norumbega Harmony is one of the largest and most active groups of Sacred Harp and shape-note singers in New England. A recording of Shaker music done at the Old Hancock Shaker Village called Shaker Songs:
Article in the Detroit Free Press [145] -November 11, 1998, "150 Years of

THE SHAKERS AND THE ARTS:

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"Shaker Made" by Ellen McBreen-Review of "The Quiet in the Land" [146]
Institute of Contemporary Art [147] in Boston, MA. "Quiet in the Land" through end of September.
Constantine Kermes Art Gallery [148]
E! Online - Fact Sheet - The Shakers - Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1985) [149] by Ken Burns.
The Parrish Art Museum: Newsletter "Shaker: The Art of Craftsmanship" [150]
Shaker:The Art of Craftsmanship Poster [151]
Shaker Historical Society Poster [152]  by Wendell Minor, artist.
Kindred Spirits Exhibit [153]   April 21-October 8, 1995.  Mingei International Museum,
"The Shaker World"  by Fran Kramer [154] .  A review of exhibit at Old Chatham based on John Kirk's 1997 book,
Shaker Gift Drawings Surface [155] by Fran Kramer & Lita Solis-Cohen.
Lafayette College [156] :  Exhibits Celebrating Shaker Design, Culture & Craftsmanship.
Shaker Visionary Image [157]   by Orville Cline.
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Shaker Exhibition [160] at Paine Webber.

INTERESTING LINKS:

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Film-"I Don't Want To Be Remembered As A Chair" [161]
American Traditional Culture Series-The Shakers [162]
Response to a question [163]  Are Shaker practices related to magical and shamanic rites?  The answer, of course, is "no"!
580CFRA-News Talk Radio [164]   "Last Few Shakers Attract Few members to Last Village" by Tom Kirchofer.
Description of Shaker Life [165]
Mother Ann Lee: Why Do We Know So Little About Her Early Life?, Dixon [166]
History of Elder Eades of South Union [167]
Landmarks of Faith-Educator's Notes-The Shakers [168]
Shakers: The United Society of Believers [169]  Shaker Profile, Sociology 257, University of Virginia
Frequently Asked Questions-Shakers (Ohio State) [170]
Some Disturbing Facts on the Signs & Wonder Movement [171]
Learn about the Shakers [172]
Polly Reed: A Shaker Life [173]
Northeast journal antiques and art: Mount Lebanon Shakers [174]  A short article about the Mt. Lebanon Shakers.
Making His Mark [175] An article about Orren Haskins.
Review of [176]  (Miguel Gomez-Ibanez-Furniture Society)
Herbal Exposure-Herbalist & Author Steven Foster [177]
Paper-"Determinants of Stay in a Religious Commune:  The Shakers, 1850-1870" [178] by Brad Andrew & Metin M. Cosgel.  Can download the paper in PDF format.
Paper-"Between God & Market:  Integration of Economy & Spirit in Shaker Communal Dairying, 1830-1875" [179] by John E. Murray & Metin M. Cosgel.  Can download the paper in PDF format.
Paper-"Productivity of a Commune: The Shakers, 1850-1880 [180] " by Metin M. Cosgel & John E. Murray. Can download the paper in PDF format.
Paper-"Responding to Price signals in Communal Agriculture:  Shaker Hog Production, 1788-1850"  [181] by Metin M. Cosgel & John E. Murray.  Can download the paper in PDF format.
Paper-"Regional Specialization in Communal Agriculture:  The Shakers, 1850-1880" [182]   by Metin M. Cosgel & John E. Murray.  Can download the paper in PDF format.
Ann Lee, Founder of the Shaker Sect [183]   by Rev. H.P. Andrews. The Ladies' Repository.   Vol. 18, #11, Nov., 1858, pp. 646-650.
A Picture of Shakerism--Mrs. Mary M. Dyer [184]   by Rev. H.P. Andrews.  The Ladies' Repository. Vol. 21, #5, May, 1861, pp. 273-277).
Shaker Gift Drawings Surface [185] by Fran Kramer & Lita Solis--Cohen
"Shaker Legacy Is Simple" [186] by Frank Bentayou.  Beacon Journal On-Line.  Trip to Shaker Heights Museum.
The Quaker Corner:  The differences between being Shaker & Quaker [187] .
Shaker Space: Being & Becoming in a Separtist Community [188]   by Jeff Jones & Carolyn Gallagher.
Shakers by Jutta Gierse [189]
Engines of Our Ingenuity-Un. of Houston, Engineering [190]
Glaube, Friede, Hoffnung [191]

INTERESTING LINKS:

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I Hear America Singing [192]
Rebecca Cox Jackson: 1795-1871 [193]
Excerpts from Gifts of Power [194]  by Rebecca Cox Jackson.
The Shakers:  Hands to Work, Hearts to God [195]   by Ken Burns

Just a Few (!) Shaker Furniture & Oval Box Sites:

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Shaker Furniture-Swartzendruber Hardwoods [196]
American Home-German Site [197]   American Style funriture.  Includes Shaker.
Robert Ortiz Studios [198]  Contemporary furniture in the Shaker and Japanese traditions.
Marco Polo:  The Shakers [199]    Unique furniture Replicas from Milan, Italy.
Rogers Woodworking [200]   Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
Shaker Workshops [201]
Shaker Shops West [202]
Shaker & Amish Design Furniture [203]  El Sobrante, California.
Chickadee Woodworking [204]  Shaker lap desk (copied from the desk which Orren Haskins made for Emma J. Neale), magazine rack and keepsake box.
North Wind Furniture & Cabinetmakers [205]  Rangeley, Maine.
Jefferson Woodworking [206]  Artwood:  A Gallery of Fine Woodworking, Bellingham, Washington.
J&B Atlantic Company - Shaker furniture - solid wood furniture, home accessories [207]
Cherry Pond Designs; fine furniture handcrafted from solid wood [208]
Spring Wood Smith-Antique Reproductions [209]  Shaker style furniture.
Shaker furniture (Shaker Mobel) in Oelde [210]
Shaker Furniture from Carolina Dealers [211]
Shaker Furniture [212]   Custom designed furnishings in the Shaker tradition by Stephen C. Barlow.
Project Plans [213]  Shaker hall table.
Shaker Furniture Shaker Style Highboy Dresser by Delnero Fine Shaker Furniture [214]
Shaker Furniture Reproductions from S. Timberlake Co. [215]
James Redway Furniture Makers - Cherry Shaker Furniture - 18th Century Country [216] .
Shaker Chairs [217]  Alan L. Nichols Furniture.
Dana Robes Wood Craftsmen [218]  Lower Shaker Village, New Hampshire.
Shaker Furniture--Howe & Braskie [219]    Canterbury, N.H.
Thunderbird Shaker Village Series Bedroom [220] .
Kinion Furniture Co. [221]   Portland, Oregon.
Village Chairs & Wares   Port Jefferson, N.Y. [222]
Ragged Mountain Woodworks [223]
Chilton Shaker Furniture Home Page [224]
The Village Woodsmith [225]   Shaker Video Collection from the shop of Garry Smith in Otselic Valley, Upstate New York.
Ralph Hamilton & Sons [226]    A small family operation on the eastern shore of Maryland.
Branch Hill Joinery [227]    Amish and Shaker furniture made by the Amish craftsmen of southern Michigan.
Xylem Furniture [228]   Michael Waldchen designs and handicrafts furniture from his workshop, Xylem Furniture Studio, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Shaker Shop [229]   located in Sturbridge, Ma.  Shaker furniture reproductions, oval boxes and Shaker milk paints.
Asleep In the Woods [230]   Calais, VT.
Evolution [231]    San Francisco & Berkeley, California.
Circa 1820 [232]   Vassalboro, Maine.  1790-1850 Reproductions.
William Laberge Cabinetmaker [233]   Wells, VT.
Ian Ingersoll [234]   Master Woodworker.
Sam Allen Woodworking Books & Tools [235]    Shaker Jelly Cupboard.
Yankee Builders Country Store: [236]   Shaker & Colonial Furniture.
William Presley-Shaker & Country Style [237]   Gheen, Minnesota.
Shaker Woodworks & Antiques [238]    Carrollton, Texas.
F.A. Wildnauer Woodwork [239]    South Berwick, Maine.
Wayne Marcoux [240]    Fine Handcrafted Hardwood Furniture.
Main Street Trading Co. [241]    Milford, Ohio.
Gardner & Halliwell Furniture [242]    Murrysville, PA.
Jacobs Woodworking [243]   Springvale, Maine.
C. Lindley Custom Woods [244]    Carrollton, Ga.
D. Andrew Kates [245] Cabinetmaker.  LeLange. Il.
House of Kirk [246]   Shaker & Early American Styles.
Homespun Shaker [247]
The Hitchcock Chair Co., Ltd. [248]   (see Berkshire Collection).
Richard Bissell Fine Woodworking [249]   Putney, VT.
Shaker Furniture & Collectibles in N.Y.C. [250]
Shaker Style furnishings [251]
Berkshire House Publishers, Woodworking [252] Publisher of Shaker shop drawings.
Willow Glen Kitchen & Baths [253]  Shaker furnishings.
Woodtown Unfinished Furniture [254]    Shaker Tables.
The Unpainted Place, Inc [255] .    Minneapolis, MN.
Privy Pine Products [256]   Shaker Style Vanities- Canada.
Replitiques [257]  Peg board and mirrors.
Shaker Pegs [258]  Baby furniture Shaker style!
TIMEKEEPERS - Gallery [259] Clocks.
Creative Woodworking [260]  Shaker style clocks.
Roggenburg Woodworking [261]   Shaker wall clock.
Woodware Designs [262]  Shaker computer tables.
Shaker Tape [263]  for chairs.
H.H. Perkins Co. [264]    Shaker Tape.
Restoration Products, Inc. [265]  Shaker tape and rush.
Orleans Carpenters - Museum Quality Shaker Oval Boxes [266]
Mountain Gourmet Product Sampler: Shaker Classics [267] Oval boxes.
McIntosh Sampler [268] Oval Boxes.
John Wilson [269] Oval boxes.
Henn workshops-Shaker Boxes [270] Oval boxes.
Traditions:  Sharing Americas Past [271]   Shaker Collection.
The Boxes and Boards [272]   Homemade Shaker boxes.
The Shaker Box Company [273]   Avon, CT.

Needlework:

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Shaker pincushions [274] Stitch with Sudberry:
Julia's Needleworks [275]  Ten shaker designs.
Homespun Elegance [276]  "Old Shaker Tune" Sampler, #130.

Shaker Miniatures:

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Shaker House [277] Shaker doll house.
Miniatures:  Shaker Works West [278]  by Ken Byers.
Miniatures by George [279]    by George Pennell.
Fine Wooden Miniature Furniture by Paul W. Frazier [280]   Mesquite, TX.
Miniature Shaker Oval Boxes [281]   by Eric Taylor
Shaker Village Series [282] The Cat's Meow Shaker Series.
Baskets "Shaker Baskets" [#Shaker Baskets] See miniature Shaker baskets listed under

Shaker Baskets:

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Shaker Fancy Baskets [283]  by Martha Wetherbee & Nathan Taylor.
Patterson's Baskets [284]   Miniature baskets.

Restaurants, Inns and Bed & Breakfasts:

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Shaker Tavern - South Union, Kentucky - Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE [285]
Pleasant Hill Kentucky Shaker Village Dining [286]
Lodging at Pleasant Hill [287]   80 guestrooms on site.
Golden Lamb - GoCinci Dining Directory [288] Menu & Information.
The Golden Lamb Home Page [289] , Lebanon, Ohio. Site contains sample menus, gift shop info, and an excellent history of the inn. "The Golden Lamb" has a fine collection of antique Shaker furniture.
Sunset Farm Inn in the Tyringham Valley [290] Overlooks the site of the Tyringham Shaker Village. The Inn has a collection of Shaker antiques.
The Shaker Inn, Enfield, New Hampshire [291]
Mary Keane House [292]   Lower Shaker Village, Enfield, New Hampshire.  Shaker purists may prefer a room in the Ministry House, their 1880 Shaker house.  (Shaker Museum and Dana Robes Woodcraft are on the premises.)
The Old Chatham Sheepherding Company Inn [293]  located in Old Chatham, N.Y. directly across from the Shaker Museum and Library.

SHAKER ANTIQUES:

Links
Willis Henry Auctions, Inc. [294]
Equinox Antiques - Shaker [295]   Manchester Center, VT.
Kovels' On-line price guide to Shaker antiques & collectibles [296]
Yellow House Antiques [297]    Buying and selling museum quality American and Shaker antiques.  Reading, VT.
G. Eldridge Antiques [298]   Glastonbury, CT.
Sloan's On-Line [299]   32 dealers with specialty in Shaker.
Shaker Antiques & Items in Maine [300]
Fresh Shaker Pieces Sell Well" [301] "
Shaker Toys [302]   Owners trying to identify toys as Shaker.  Were given to them as such.
Antiques & Americana with George Michael [303]  A video series of twelve 2 hour videos, 46 topics.  One of the topics is "Hancock Shaker Village".

Academic:

Links
Amazon.com: A Glance: The Shaker Experience in America [304]  Review of
NYTimes-Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives [305] A review of Priscilla J. Brewer's book.
NYTimes-Shaker Built: The Form and Function of Shaker Architecture [306] by Paul Rocheleau & June Sprigg.
Review-The Shaker World [307]  by John T. Kirk.
Review-Shaker Herb & Garden Book [308]  by Rita Buchanan.
Review-Shaker Medicinal Herbs [309]  by Amy Bess Miller
Review-Origins of the Shakers [310] by Clark Garrett

Spiritual:

Links
Review of Skees' God Among the Shakers: A Search for Stillness & Faith at Sabbathday Lake. [311]
Review of Shees' God Among the Shakers [312]   Christian Science Monitor
Review of Simple Gifts: A Memoir of a Shaker Village [313] : by June Sprigg.
Shaker Advice to Children:  On behavior At Table [314]   Miniature Book--The Press of Ward Schori.

Novels and Short Stories:

Links
[315] [316]
Janice Holt Giles. [317]
"The Shaker Bridal" from Twice-told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne [318]
Death of a Winter Shaker [319] and
NYTimes-The Divine Comedy of John Venner [320] by George Blake Smith.  The Divine Comedy Shaker style. Mother Ann is portrayed as a spiritual guide to John Venner who seeks paradise stumbling through his own purgatory and hell. The last Shaker sister, Sabbathday Wells, is John's Beatrice.
Amazon.com-The Divine Comedy of John Venner [321]  by George Blake Smith.  Another review.
NYTimes-Perfect Agreement [322] by Michael Downing.  The Shakers of Kentucky are a subplot in this novel.
Amazon.com-Perfect Agreement [323]  by Michael Downing.  Another review.

Cookbooks:

Links
NYTimes-Shaker Your Plate by Sr. Frances Carr [324] A review of Sr. Frances' great cookbook. The review includes the following recipes: chicken tarragon, Sr. Marie's potatoes, Shaker stewed tomatoes and lemon pie. I use the book all the time. Get a copy. Help support the the Shakers and buy it from Sabbathday Lake.
NYTimes-In a Shaker Kitchen [325] A N.Y.Times review of Norma MacMillian's book. Includes recipes for Shaker applesauce and cinnamon sour cream cookies.
Shaker Recipes On-Line:

Shaker Furniture:

Links
NYTimes-The Shaker Chair [326] by Charles R. Muller & Timothy D. Rieman.
The complete Book of Shaker Furniture, Rieman & Burks [327] A review.
Shaker Legacy:Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style, C.Becksvoort [328]  A review.
Review of [329]  by Joy Krause.
Amazon.com-The Shaker Legacy [330]   by Christian Becksvoort.  A review.

THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE:

Links
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress Exhibit) [331] An excellent on-line exhibit. A exhibit catalogue can also be purchased from the Library of Congress.
RELIGION 166: Religious Life in the United States [332]  A fantastic course on American religious life. Professor Terry Matthews of Wake Forest University. Lectures, bibliography and more links.
RELIGION 466: Religion in the South [333] Another great course from Terry Matthews. Lectures, bibliography and more links.
Divining America:  Religion & the National Culture [334]  "TeacherServe" from the National Humanities Center.  An interactive curriculum enrichment service for high school teachers.
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance: Home Page [335] A great resource for religions of all kinds!
The New Religious Movements Homepage [336] A marvelous resource from the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia.
American Academy of Religion: Home Page [337] This site serves as an introduction to the AAR, the major learned society and professional association for scholars whose object of study is religion. Its mission, in a world where religion plays so central a role in social, political and economic events, as well as in the lives of communities and individuals, is to meet a critical need for ongoing reflection upon and understanding of religious traditions, issues, questions and values.
Georgetown American Studies Web: Philosophy and Religion [338]
Indiana University Center for Study of Religion and America [339] A joint effort of Indiana University & Purdue
American Religion Links-West Virgina Un. [340]
WestWeb: Western Religious History [341] Promised Land. Religious experience in the American far west.
American Religious Experience [342]
The Center for the Study of American Religion [343] Princeton University
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: Table of Contents [344]
Making of America-Digital Library of Primary Sources in Am. Soc. History [345]

By the Shakers

Links
Barker, Sister Mildred R.  Holy Land:  A History of the Alfred Shakers.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The Shaker Press, 1986.
Barker, Sister Mildred R.  Poems and Prayers.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The Shaker Press, 1983.
Barker, Sister Mildred R.  The Sabbathday Lake Shakers:  An Introduction to the Shaker Heritage.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The Shaker Press, 1985.
Bishop, Rufus and Seth Y. Wells, eds.  Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations and Doctrines of Our Ever Blessed Mother Ann Lee, and the Elders with Her.  Hancock, Mass:  Tallcott & J. Deming, 1816.  Reprint:  Second Edition.  Albany, N.Y.:  Weed, Parsons & co., Printers, 1888.
Blinn, Henry C., introduction.  Gentle Manners:  A Guide to Good Morals.  Published by the Shakers in 1823, 1844 and 1899.  Canterbury, N.H.:  Shaker Village, Inc., 1987.
Bussell, Joshua H., 1816-1900. A Plan of Poland Hill, Shaker Village in the State of Maine. Alfred, Maine, 1850.
Carr, Sister Frances A.  Growing Up Shaker.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers, 1994.
A Collection of Millennial Hymns, Adapted to the Present Order of the Church.  Canterbury, N.H.:  Printed in the United society, 1847.  First published in 1813.
Cultrone, John and Brother Arnold Hadd.  Collected and Complied by J.H.:  The Story in Many Voices, of Deacon James Holmes, First Printer of the Sabbathday Lake Shakers.   Red Wagon Press at The Shaker Press, 1996.
Doolittle, Mary Antionette.  Autobiography of Mary Antionette Doolittle, Containing a Brief History of Early Life Prior to Becoming a Member of the Shaker Community, etc.  Mt. Lebanon, Columbia  Co., N.Y., 1880.
Dunlavy, John.  The Manifesto, or, A Declaration of the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of Christ.  New York: Reprinted by Edward O. Jenkins, 1847.
Evans, Frederick. W.  Autobiography of a Shaker and Revelation of The Apocalypse.  New York:  American News Company, 1869.
Evans, Frederick W.  The Conditions of Peace.   Mt. Lebanon, N.Y.: (The Shakers), 1890.
Evans, Frederick W.  Compendium of the Origin, History, Principles, Rules and Regulations, Government, and Doctrines of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing  with Biographies of Ann Lee, William Lee, Jas. Whittaker, J. Hocknell, J. Meacham and Lucy Wright.  Albany, N.Y.:  C. Van Benthuysen, 1867.  Reprint: New York:  AMS Press Inc., 1975.
Evans, Frederick W.  Shaker Communism; or, Tests of Divine Inspiration.  The Second Christian or Gentile Pentecostal Church, as Exemplified by Seventy Communities of Shakers in America.  London:  Published by James burns, 15, Southampton Row, 1871.
Evans, Frederick W. A Short Treatise on the Second Appearing of Christ In and Through the Order of the Female. Boston:  Bazin & Chandler, printers, 1853.
Fraser, Daniel.  The Divine Afflatus:  A Force in History.  Boston:  Press of Rand, Avery, & Co., 1875
Fraser, Daniel.   Is A Virgin Life Contrary to Natural and Revealed Law?  Manuscript dated 1870. WRHS, VII.B.130, Reel 59.
Fraser, Daniel.   A View of Human Society.   Manuscript dated 1860.  WRHS, VII.A.6, Reel 53.
Green, Calvin and Seth Y. Wells.  A Brief Exposition of the Established Principles and Regulations of the United Society Called Shakers.   Albany, N.Y.:  Printed by Packard and VanBenthuysen, 1830.
Green, Calvin.  A Summary View of the Millennial Church, or United Society of Believers, Commonly Called Shakers.  Albany, N.Y:  C. Van Benthuysen, 1848.  Reprint of the original 1823 edition.
Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Shaker Chairs Manufactured by the Society of Shakers.  R.M. Wagon & Co., Mount Lebanon, N.Y.  Reprint:  Old Chatham, N.Y.:  The Shaker Museum, 1975.
Hollister, A.G. and C. Green.  Pearly Gate of the True Life and Doctrine for Believers in Christ.  Second Edition. Mount Lebanon, Columbia Co., N.Y., 1896.
Johnson, Theodore E.  Hands To Work and Hearts to God:  The Shaker Tradition in Maine.  Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin college Museum of Art, 1969.
Johnson, Theodore E.   In the Eye of Eternity:  Shaker Life and the Work of Shake Hands.  The United Society of Shakers and Gorham, Maine:  The University of Southern Maine, 1983.
Johnson, Theodore E.   Ingenious & Useful:  Shaker Sister's Communal Industries, 1860-1960.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers and the New England Foundation for the Arts, 1986.
Johnson, Theodore E.  Life in the Christ Spirit:  Observations on Shaker Theology.  Being in substance remarks delivered at the Shaker Conference, Hancock, Massachusetts, September 7, 1968.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  United Society of Shakers, 1969.
Johnson, Theodore E.  Shakerism for Today.  Reprinted from The Shaker Quarterly, Volume III, No.1, Spring 1963. Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers, 1963.
Leonard, Wm.  A Discourse on the Order and Propriety of Divine Inspiration and Revelation, Showing the Necessity Thereof, in All Ages to Know the Will of God, etc.  Harvard:  Published by the United Society, 1858.
Mace, Aurelia G.  The Aletheia:  Spirit of Truth  A Series of Letters in which the Principles of the United Society Know as Shakers are Set Forth and Illustrated.  Farmington, Maine:  Press of the Knowlton & McLeary Co., 1907.
Mace, Fayette.  Familiar Dialogues on Shakerism;  in which the Principles of the United Society are Illustrated and Defended.  Portland, Maine:  Charles Day and Co., Printers, 1838.
The Manifesto.  Paper published by the United Society, Vols. I-XXIX, January 1, 1871 to December, 1899.  Title variations: The Shaker  (1871-1872), Shaker and Shakeress Monthly (1873-1875), The Shaker (1876-1877), The Shaker Manifesto (1878-1882) and The Manifesto (1883-1899).
McNemar, Richard.  The Kentucky Revival;  or, a Short History of the late Extraordinary Outpouring of the Spirit of God in the Western States of America.  Includes Observations on Church Government by the Presbytery of Springfield;  to which is added The Last Will and Testament of that Reverend Body.  New York:  Reprinted by Edward O. Jenkins, 1846.
McNemar, Richard.  A Little Selection of Choice Poetry New and Old, Doctrinal and Devotional.  Watervliet, Ohio: (The Shakers), 1835.
McNemar, Richard.  The Orthodox Incarnation, or Divine Humanity of Jesus Christ. Watervliet, Ohio:  The Shakers, 1835.
Meacham, Joseph.  A Concise Statement of the Principles of the Only True church, According to the Gospel of the Present Appearance of Christ.  Reprint.  Sabgbathday Lake, Maine:  United Society, 1963..
Pelham, Richard W. A Shaker's Answer to the Oft-Repeated Question "What Would Become of the World if All should Become Shakers?" Reprint.  (East Canterbury, N.H."  The Shakers, 188?
Shaker Music, Original Inspirational Hymns and Songs Illustrative of the Resurrection Life and Testimony of the Shakers, Volume I.  Published for the North Family, Mt. Lebanon, N.Y.   New York:  William A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square, 1884.  Reprint:  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers, 1992.
Shaker Music, Published by the North Family of Mt. Lebanon, Col. Col, N.Y., Volume II.  New York:  Wm. A Pond & Company, 25 Union Square, 1893.  Reprint:  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers, 1992.
Stewart, Philemon, instrument.  A Holy, Sacred and Divine Roll and Book;  from Lord God of Heaven, to the Inhabitants of Earth:  Revealed in the United Society at New Lebanon, New York, United States of America. Canterbury, N.H.:  Printed in the United Society, 1843.
Whitcher, Sister Mary, complied by George Lorenz.  Poetic Writings of Sister Mary Whitcher.   Complied from the Shaker Manifesto.  Published by The Carol Press.
Whitcher, Sister Mary.  Shaker House-Keeper.  Reprint.  Weeks & Potter, 1882.
White, Anna and Leila S. Taylor.  Shakerism:  Its Meaning and Message.  Columbus, Ohio:  Press of Fred J. Heer, 1905.
Whittaker, James.  [DISPENSATIONS] A Concise Statement.  Bennington, Vermont:  Haswell & Russell, 1790.
Youngs, Benjamin S., David Darrow and John Meacham.  The Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing;  Containing a General Statement of All Things Pertaining to the Faith And Practice of the Church of God in this Latter-Day. Published by order of the Ministry, in Union with the Church.  Albany:  Printed by E. and E. Hosford, 1810.
Youngs, Isaac.  A Short Abridgment of the Rules of Music, with Lessons for Exercise, and a Few Observations:  for New Beginners.  New Lebanon, [N.Y.]:  {privately printed?]. 1843, reprint, 1846.

By Ex-Shakers

Links
Brown, Thomas.  An Account of the People Called Shakers.  Troy, New York:  Parker and Bliss, 1812.
Dyer, Mary Marshall.  A Portrait of Shakerism.  Concord, N.H.:  for the author, 1822.
Dyer, Mary Marshall.  The Rise and Progress of the Serpent from the Garden of Eden to the Present Day:  With a Disclosure of Shakerism.  Concord. N.H.:  for the author, 1847.
Elkins, Hervey.  Fifteen Years in the Senior Order of Shakers:  A Narration of the Facts concerning That Singular People.  Hanover, N.H.:  Dartmouth Press, 1853.
Hulings, Martha A.  Shaker Days Remembered.  Albany, N.Y.:  Printed by the Shaker Heritage Society, 1983, 4th printing, 1989.
Lamson, David R.  Two Year's Experience among the Shakers.  West Boylston:  for the author, 1848.
Rathbun, Reuben.  Reasons Offered for Leaving the Shakers.  Pittsfield, Mass.:  Chester Smith, 1800.
Rathbun, Valentine.  "About the Shakers."  The New Star, no. 5 (May 9, 1797),  pp.45-46.
Shaver, Elizabeth D., ed., Author Unknown.   Fifteen Years a Shakeress.  Originally published in 1872 in Galaxy magazine. Albany, N.Y.:  Shaker Heritage Society, 1989.

By Ex-Shakers

Links
Adams, Elva R.  Shaker Education.  Lebanon, Ohio, The Warren County Historical Society, 1974.
Anderson, Russell H.  "The Shaker Communities in Southeast Georgia."  Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume 50 (1966), pp. 162-72.
Anderson, Russell H.  "The Shaker Community in Florida."  Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 38 (1959),  pp.29-44.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  "A Shaker House in Canaan, New York."  Antiques.  April, 1962, pp. 408-411.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  A Shaker Meeting House and Its Builder.  Hancock, Massachusetts, Shaker Community, Inc., 1962.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  The Community Industries of the Shakers.  Albany, N.Y.:  The Universtiy of the State of New York, 1932
Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith Andrews. Fruits of the Shaker Tree of Life:  Memoirs of Fifty Years of Collecting and Research.   Stockbridge, Mass.:  Berkshire Traveller Press, 1975.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  The Gift to Be Simple:  Songs, Dances and Rituals of the American Shakers.  New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  The People Called Shakers.  New York:  Dover Publication, Inc., 1963
Andrews, Edward Deming.  Shaker Furniture:  The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect.  New York:  Dover Publications, Inc., 1950.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  The Shaker Order of Christmas.  (New York:  Museum of American Folk Art, 1969)   Published on the occasion of an exhibition, The Shaker Order of Christmas."
Andrews, Edwar Deming.  "The Shakers in a New World."  Antiques.  Vol. LXXII, 34 (October, 1957), pp. 340 ff.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  Visions of the Heavenly Sphere:  A Study in Shaker Religious Art. Charlottesville:  The University Press of Virginia, 1969
Andrews, Edward Deming.  Work and Worship Among the Shakers:  Their Craftsmanship and Economic Order. New York:  Dover Publication, 1974.
Bainbridge, William Sims.  "Shaker Demographics, 1840-1900:  An Example of the Use of U.S. Census Enumeration Schedules."  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Volume 21 (December 1982), pp. 352-65.
Baird, Henry Martyn. The Camisard Uprising of the French Protestants.  New York and London, 1890.
Barnes, Sherman B.  "Shaker Education".   The Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Quarterly.  A publication of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.  January, 1951, pp. 67-76.
Barton, Cynthia H.  A New Eden.  Harvard, Massachusetts:  Fruitlands Museums, 1988.
Bestor, Arthur.  Backwoods Utopias:  The Sectarian Origins and the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press 1953.
Boice, Martha, Dale Covington and Richard Spence.  Maps of the Shaker West.  Dayton, Ohio:  Knot Garden Press, 1997.
Brewer, Priscilla J.  "Numbers Are Not the Thing for Us to Glory In:  Demographic Perspectives on the Decline of the Shakers."  Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 7, 1987.
Brewer, Priscilla J.  Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives.  Hanover, N.H., and London:  University   Press of New England, 1986.
Brewer, Priscilla J.  "'Tho' of the Weaker Sex':  A Reassessment of Gender Equality among the Shakers."  Signs:  A Journal of Women in Culture and Society.  Volume 17 (Spring, 1992), pp. 609-35.
Bunnell, Jean (ed.).  Children at Shaker Village:  Rural Living in the 19th Century.  Curriculum Unit--Elementary to Middle School.  Sabbathday Lake:  The United Society of Shakers.
Burns, Amy Stechler and Ken Burns.  The Shakers:   Hands to Work, Hearts to God.  New York:  Portland House, 1987.
Burns, Deborah E.  Shaker Cities of Peace, Love and Union:  A History of the Hancock Bishopric.  Hanover , N.H., and London:  University Press of New England, 1993.
Burress, Marjorie Byrnside.  Whitewater, Ohio, Village of Shakers, 1824-1916:  Its History and Its People.  Cincinnati:   Published by the author, 1979.
Butler, Linda.  Inner Light:  The Shaker Legacy.  Frankfort, Ky:  Gnomon Press, 1996. (Paperback re-issue of 1985 edition)
Campion, Nardi Reeder.  Mother Ann Lee:  Morning Star of the Shakers.  Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1990.
"Canterbury Shaker Village", Special Issue.  Historical New Hampshire. Vol. 48, No.2 & 3. (Summer/Fall 1993).
Chmielewski, Wendy, Louis J. Kern, and Marlyn Klee-Hartzell, eds.  Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States.  Syracuse, N.Y.:  Syracuse University Press, 1993.
Clark, Thomas D. and F. Gerald Ham.  Pleasant Hill and Its Shakers.  Harrodsburg, Ky.:  Pleasant Hill Press, 1983.
Conlin, Mary Lou.  The North Union Story. 1961.  Reprint, Shaker Heights, Ohio:  Shaker Historical Society, 1974.
Cornforth, John.  "Creating the Cult of the Shakers."  Country Life.  March 21, 1974, pp. 634-637.
Crosthwaite, Jane F.  "The Spirit Drawings of Hannah Cohoon:  Window on the Shakers and Their Folk Art."  Communal societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 7, 1987.
Crosthwaite, Jane F.  "'A White and Seamless Robe':  Celibacy and Equality in Shaker Art and Theology."  Colby Library Quarterly.  Volume 25, no. 3 (September, 1989), pp. 188-98.
Deignan, Kathleen.  The Eschatology of Shaker Christianity.  ATLA Monograph Series, No. 29.   Metuchen, N.J., and London:  the American Theological Library Association & The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992.
Desroche, Henri, John K. Savacool, trans.  The American Shakers.  Amherst:  University of  Massachusetts Press, 1971.
DeWolfe, Elizabeth.  "'Erroneous Principles, Base Deceptions, and Pious Frauds':  Anti-Shaker Writing, Mary Marshall Dyer, and the Public Theater of Apostasy."  Ph.D.dissertation, Boston University, 1996.
Eastman, Harland H.  Alfred, Maine:  The Shakers and the Village.  Sanford, Maine:  Wilson's Printers, 1986.
Edwards, Sharon.  "Population Characteristics and Trends of the Shaker Community of Union Village, Ohio, 1805-1870."  The Old Northwest 14, No. 1 (1988). pp. 67-90.
Emerich, A.D. and A.H. Benning, eds.  Community Industries of the Shakers:  A New Look.  A catalog of highlights of an exhibition at the New York State Museum, 1983-84.  Albany, N.Y.:  Shaker Heritage Society, 1983.
Emlen, Robert P.  Shaker Village Views.  Hanover, N.H., and London:  University Press of New England, 1987.
Filley, Dorothy M.  Recapturing Wisdom's Valley:  The Watervliet Shaker Heritage, 1775-1975.  Albany:  Published by the town of Colonie and the Albany Institute of History and Art under a grant from the Albany City and County Bicentennial Commission on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of Shaker settlement, 1975.
Foster, Laurence.  Religion and Sexuality:  Three American Communal Experiments of the 19th Century.  New York, N.Y.:  Oxford University Press, 1981.
Foster, Laurence.  Women, Family and Utopia:  Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community and the Mormons.  Syracuse, N.Y.:  Syracuse University press, 1991.
Garrett, Clarke.  Origins of the Shakers:  From the Old World to the New World.  Baltimore and London:  the John Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Garrett, Clarke.  Spirit Possession and Popular Religion:  From the Camisards to the Shakers.  Baltimore and London:  The John Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Gifford, Don, ed.  An Early View of the Shakers:  Benson John Lossing and the Harper's Article of July 1857. Hanover and London:   Forward by June Sprigg.  University Press of New England, 1989.  Harpers New Monthly Magazine LXXXVI (July, 1857).  Facsimile.  Old Chatham, N.Y.:  Shaker Museum, 1975.
Gooden, Rosemary D.  "A Preliminary Examination of the Shaker Attitude toward Work."  Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 3, 1983.
Green, Nancy L.  Ye Olde Shaker Bells.   Lexington, Ky.:  The Author, 1930.
Guide to the Shirley Shaker Village.  Shirley, Massachusetts: Shirley Historical Society,  1994.
Gutowski, Diane.  "A Shaker Tour of New England".  Early American Life.  Vol. IX, #3 (June, 1978), pp. 51-52, 83.
"Hancock Shaker Vilage".  Early American Life.  Vol. XXIV, #1 (February, 1993), pp. 20-29.
Harrison, J.F.C.  The Second Coming:  Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850.  News Brunswick,   N.J.:  Rutgers University Press, 1979.
Hayden, Dolores.  Seven American Utopias:  The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975.  Cambridge, Mass.:  MIT Press, 1976.
Hess, Wendell.  The Enfield (N.H.) Shakers:  A Brief History.  Copyright may 1993, Wendell Hess.
Hinds, William Alfred.  American Communities:  Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Oneida, and the Shaker Societies. Secaucus, N.J.:  the Citadel Press, 1973.
Hines, Tommy.  "Shaker Furniture from South Union, Kentucky." Antiques, Vol. 151, No. 5, May, 1997, pp. 724-731.
Holloway, Mark.  Heavens on Earth:  Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880.  New York:   Dover Publication, Inc., 1966.
Horgan, Edward R.  The Shaker Holy Land:  A Community Portrait.  Harvard & Boston, Massachusetts:  The Harvard Common Press, 1987.
Hulick, Diana Emery and Peter Walch.  "Shaker Spirituality and Photographic Documentation". New Mexico Studies in the Fine Arts, Volume XI, 1987.
Humez, Jean, ed.  Gifts of Power:  The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress.  Amherst, Mass:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.
Humez, Jean, ed.  Mother's First-Born Daughters:  Early Shaker Writing on Women and Religion.  Bloomington and Indianapolis:  Indiana University Press, 1993.
Humez, Jean.  "Weary of Petticoat Government:  The Spector of Female Rule in Early Nineteenth-Century Shaker Politics."' Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 11, 1991.
Humez. Jean.  "'A woman Mighty to Pull You down':  Married Women's Rights and Female Anger in the Anti-Shaker Narratives of Eunice Chapman and Mary Marshall Dyer."  Journal of Womens History.  Volume 6, no.2 (Summer, 1994), pp. 90-110.
Humez. Jean.  "'Ye Are My Epistles':  The Construction of Ann Lee Imagery in Early Shaker Sacred Literature."  Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.  (Spring, 1992), pp. 83-103.
Hunt, Melba L.  Summers at Watervliet.  Piqua, Ohio:  Hammer Graphics, Inc., 1985.
Hutton, Daniel, M.  Old Shakertown & the Shakers.  Harrodsburg, Ky.:  Harrodsburg Herald Press, 1936.
Keig, Susan Jackson.  Trade With the World's People:   A Shaker Album. Hamilton, Ohioo:  beckett paper co., 1976
Keith, John M.  "The Economic Development of the South  Union Shaker Colony, 1807-1861."  (Thesis, Western Kentucky State College, 1965).
Kephart, William M.  Extraordinary Groups:  The Sociology of Unconventional Life-Styles.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1976.
Kern, Louis J.   An Ordered Love:  Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian American Communes--the Shakers, the Mormons and the Oneida Community.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
Kilty, Klare Kay.  "A Survey of the Origin of the Shaker Movement." Heritage Room, James White Library, Andrews University, Berrien Spring, Michigan, 1960.
Kirk, John T.  The Shaker World:  Art, Life, Belief.  New York, N.Y.:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997.
Klyver, Richard D.  Brother James:  The Life and Times of Shaker Elder James Prescott.  Shaker Heights, Ohio: Shaker historical Society, 1992.
Kramer, Fran.  Groveland and the New York Communities.  A catalog of an exhibition at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, January 11 to September 2, 1991.  Rochester:  Rochester Museum of Science Center, 1991.
Kramer, Fran.  "The Shakers of Groveland, New York."   The Magazine Antiques. August, 1991, pp. 228-239.
Ledes, Allison Eckardt. A Shaker Cabinetmaker:  Orren N. Haskins. Antiques, Vol. 151, No. 5, May, 1997. p. 654.
MacLean, J.P.  "Origin, Rise, Progress and Decline of the Whitewater Community of Shakers Located in Hamilton County, Ohio."  Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications, 13 (1904), pp. 401-43.
MacLean, J.P.  Shakers of Ohio.  Columbus:  F.J. Heer Printing Co., 1907.  Reprint, Philadelphia:  Porcupine Press, 1975.
Madden, Etta M.  Bodies of Life:  Shaker Literature and Literacies.  Contributions to the Study of Religion, Number 52.  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 1998.
Madden, Etta M.  "Reading, Writing, and the Race of Mother Figures:  Shaker Rebecca Cox Jackson and Alonzo Giles Hollister."  A Mighty Baptism:  Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism.  Ed. Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane.  Ithaca, N.Y.:  Cornell University Press, 1996,  pp. 210-34.
Mahoney, Kathleen, photographs by Lilo Raymond.  Simple Wisdom:  Shaker Sayings, Poems, and Songs.  New York, N.Y.:  Viking Studio Books, Published by the Penguin Group, 1993.
Marini, Stephen A.  Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1982.
McCully, Susan.  "Oh I Love Mother, I Love Her Power:  Shaker Spirit Possession and the Performance of Desire." 'Theatre Survey.  Volume 35 (May, 1994), pp. 88-99.
McNutt, Randy.  "Shaker Simplicity:  Warren County's Collection of Shaker Artifacts is One of the Largest and Best in the Country." Ohio.  Vol. 21, #9 (February, 1999), pp. 42.43.
Melcher, Marguerite Fellows.  The Shaker Adventure.  Old Chatham, New York:  The Shaker Museum, 1986.
Mercadante, Linda A.  Gender, Doctrine and God:  The Shakers and Contemporary Theology.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1990.
Milbern, Gwendolyn.  Shaker Clothing.  Lebanon, Ohio:  The Warren County Historical Society.
Miller, Amy Bess.  Hancock Shaker Village:  The City of Peace.  Dalton, Mass.:  Studley Press, 1984.
Morse, Flo.  The Shakers and the World's People.  Hanover, N.H., and London:  University Press of New England, 1987.
Morse, Flo.  The Story of the Shakers.  Woodstock, Vermont:  The Countryman Press, 1986.
Murray, John.  "A Demographic Analysis of Shaker Mortality Trends."  Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 13, 1993.
Murray, John.  "Determinants of Membership Levels and Duration in a Shaker Commune, 1780-1880." ' Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Volume 34 (1995), pp. 35-48.
Murray, John.  "Human Capital in Religious Communes:  Literacy and Selection of Nineteenth Century Shakers." 'Explorations in Economic History.  Volume 32 (1995), pp. 217-35
Murray, John, Metin M. Cosgel and Thomas J. Miceli.  "Organization and Distributional Equality in a Network of Comunes: The Shakers."  The American Journal of Economics and Sociology.  Vol. 56, Issue #2, April, 1997, pp.129-144.
Murray, Stuart.  Shaker Heritage Guidebook:  Exploring the Historic Sites, Museums & Collections.  Spencertown, N.Y.:  Golden Hill Press, Inc., 1994.
Neal, Julia.  By Their Fruits:  The Story of Shakerism in South Union, Kentucky.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  University of North Carolina Press, 1947.
Neal, Julia, editor.  The Journal of Eldress Nancy.   Nashville, Tenn.:  Parthenon, 1963.
Neal, Julia.  The Kentucky Shakers.  Lexington, Ky.:  The University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Neuhaus, Cable.  "The Shakers Face their Last Amen."  People Weekly, Vol 27, No. 9, March 2, 1987, pp. 78-81.
Newman, Cathy, photographs by Sam Abell.  "The Shakers' Brief Eternitiy."  National Geographic .  Vol. 176, #3 (September, 1989), pp. 302-325.
Nickless, Karen and Pamela J. Nickless.  "Trustees, Deacons, and Deaconesses:  The Temporal Role of the Shaker Sisters, 1820-1890." ' Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.   Volume 7, 1987.
Nordhoff, Charles.  The Communistic Societies of the United States.  New York:  Harper, 1875.  New York:  Dover Publications, Inc., 1966, reprint.
Noyes, John Humphrey.  History of American Socialisms.  New York:  Hillary House Publishers, Ltd.,  1961.
Olson, Kathryn M.  "The Role of Dissociation in Redeeming Knowledge Claims:  Nineteenth- Century Shaker Epistemological Resistance to Decline."  Philosophy and Rhetoric.  Volume 28 (1995), pp. 45-68.
Ott, John Harlow.  Hancock Shaker Village:  A Guidebook and History.  Pittsfield, Ma.:  Shaker Community, Inc., 1976.
Parker, Donna.  "Ho!  For Drakes Creek:  Something Ventured, Nothing Gained."  Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association. Volume 14, 1994.
Parsons, Dr. Usher.  A Centennial History of Alfred, York County, Maine.  Philadelphia:  Collins, Printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1872.
Paterwic. Stephen.  "From Individual to Community:  Becoming a Shaker at New Lebanon".  Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume11, 1991.
Patterson, Daniel W [346] .  Gift Drawing and Gift Song.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  United Society of  Shakers, 1983.
Patterson, Daniel W.  "Shaker Music."  Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 2, 1982.
Patterson, Daniel W.  The Shaker Spiritual.  Knoxville, Tenn.:  University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
Pauly, Fred L.  The Shakers:  A History of Union Village.  Reprinted by the Warren County Historical Society, Lebanon, Ohio, from the July ,1903 issue of The Trilobite of National Normal University, 1994.
Pearson, Elmer R. and Julia Neal.  The Shaker Image.  Pittsfield, Massachusetts:  Hancock Shaker Village, Inc.  Second and Annotated Edition.  Annotations by Magda Gabor Hotchkiss., 1994.   First Edition.  Boston:  New York Graphic Society in collaboration with Shaker Community, Inc., Hancock, Ma.,1974.
Pearson, Elmer R.  The Shakers, Religion & Furniture.  Kunstindustrimuseet I Oslo,  S�rtrykk Av �rbok, 1966.
Peters, Robert.  The Gift to Be Simple:  A Garland for Ann Lee.  New York:  Liveright, 1975.
Phillippi, J.M. Shakerism or The Romance of a Religion.   Dayton, Ohio:  The Otterbein Press (United Brethern Publishing House), 1912.
Phillips, Hazel Spencer.  Richard the Shaker.  Oxford, Ohio:  Expoprint Inc., 1972.
Phillips, Hazel Spencer. Shaker Architecture:  Warren County Ohio.  Oxford, Ohio:  Typoprint, Inc., 1971..
Phillips, Hazel Spencer.  Shakers in the West.  Reprint courtesy of Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, Spring, 1962.
Piercy, Caroline B.  The Valley of God's Pleasure:   A Saga of the North Union Shaker Community.  First Edition. New York, N.Y.:  Stratford House, 1951.
Piercy, M.D., Harry D.  "Shaker Medicine."   The Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Quarterly.  A publication of The Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society.  October, 1954, pp. 336-348.
Pitzer, Donald E.  America's Communal Utopias.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Price, Robert.  "Of Mulberries & Shaker Silk."  Miami Valley History:  A Journal of the Montgomery County Historical Society, Vol. II, 1990, pp. 30-44.
Priestley, Wendy L. Kenerson.  "'Holy Mount-Pleasant Grove':  The North Family of Mount Lebanon, Shaker Village in the Late Nineteenth Century."  Ph.D dissertation.  George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1998.
Procter-Smith, Marjorie.  Shakerism and Feminism:  Reflections on Women's Religion and the Early Shakers. Old Chatham, N.Y.:  Shaker Museum and Library, 1991.
Procter-Smith, Marjorie.  "'Who do You say That I am?'  Mother Ann as Christ."  Locating the Shakers:  Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Religious Movement.  Ed. Mick Gidley.  Exeter:  University of Exeter Press, 1990, pp. 91-93.
Procter-Smith, Marjorie.  Women in Shaker Community and Worship:  A Feminist Analysis of the Uses of Religious Symbolism.  Studies in Women and Religion, Volume 16.  Lewiston/Queenston:  The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985.
Promey, Sally M. [347]  Spiritual Spectacles, Vision and Image in Mid 19th Century Shakerism.  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1993.
Queenan, Linda.
Richmond, Colin Becket.  A Collection of Shaker Thoughts.  Printed by author, 9th Edition, 1995.   Also wrote From Their hearts and Hands:  A Treasure of Shaker Poetry.
Robinson, Charles Edson.  A Concise History of the United Society of Believers Called Shakers.  East Canterbury, N.H.:  The Canterbury Society, 1893.  A Shaker friend published by the Society.   Reprinted
Rose, Milton C. & Emily Mason Rose. A Shaker Reader.   New York:  Universe Books, 1975.
Rotundo, Barbara.  "Crossing the Dark River:  Shaker Funerals and Cemeteries."  Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 7, 1987.
Sasson, Diane.  "A 19th Century Case Study;  Alonzo Giles Hollister (1830-1911)."  Shaker Quarterly.  Volume 17 (Winter, 1989), pp. 154-72; 188-93.
Sasson, Diane.  "Individual Experience, Community Control, and Gender:  The Harvard Shaker Community during the Era of Manifestations."  Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association. Volume 13, 1993.
Sasson, Diane.  The Shaker Spiritual Narrative.  Knoxville, Tenn.:  University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
Schwartz, Hillel.  The French Prophets:  The History of a Millenarian Group in Eighteenth-Century England. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:  University of California Press, 1980.
Schwartz. Hillel.  Knaves, Fools, Madmen and That Subtile Effluvium:  A Study of the Opposition to the French Prophets in England, 1706-1710.  Gainsville:  University Presses of Florida, 1978.
Sears, Clara Endicott.  Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
"The Shaker Experience."  Colonial Homes.  Vol. 5, #3 (May-June, 1979), pp. 107-129.
The Shaker Heritage:  An Annotated Pictorial Guide to the Collection of the Shaker Historical Museum. Cleveland, Ohio:  The Shaker Historical Society, 1980.
The Shakers:  Their Arts and Crafts.  Special issue with essays on Shaker prose and poetry, the western Shakers, furniture, and Spirit Drawings.  Philadelphia Museum Bulletin:  Spring, 1962.
Shaver, Elizabeth and Ned Pratt.  The Watervliet Shakers & Their 1848 Shaker Meeting House, Albany, New York.  Albany, New York:  The Shaker Heritage Society, 1994.
Sirico, Louis J. Jr. "Inclusive Law, Inclusive Religion, and the Shakers." Journal of Church and State.   Vol 34, No. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 563-574.
Skees, Suzanne.  God Among the Shakers:  A Search for Stillness and Faith at Sabbathday Lake. New York:  Hyperion, 1998.
Skolnlick, Solomon M., photographer.  Simple Gifts:  The Shaker Song.  New York:  Hyperion, 1992.
Starbuck, David R. and  Swank, Scott T. A Shaker Family Album:  Photographs from the Collection of Canterbury Shaker Village. Hanover and London:  University Press of new England, 1998.
Stein, Stephen J.  Inspiration, Revelation, and Scripture:  the Story of A Shaker Bible.  Reprinted from the proceedings of the American Antiquarian  Society, vol. 105, part 2.  Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1996.
Stein, Stephen J.  Letters from a Young Shaker: William S. Byrd at Pleasant Hill.  Lexington, Kentucky:  The University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
Stein, Stephen J.  The Shaker Experience in America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1992.
Stein, Stephen J.  "Shaker Gift and Shaker Order:  A Study of Religious Tensions in Nineteenth Century America." Communal Societies:  Journal of the Communal Studies Association.  Volume 10, 1990.
Stier, Maggie and Ralph N. Fuller.  Shaker Sites in Harvard:  A Guide for the Harvard Shaker Bicentennial, 1791-1991.  Fruitlands Museums, 1991.
Swain, Thomas.  "The Evolving Expressions of the Religious and Theological Experiences of a Community:  A Comparative Study of the Shaker Testimonies Concerning the Sayings of Mother Ann Lee;  An Exploration of the Development from Oral Traditions to Written Forms as Preserved in Four Documents."  Shaker Quarterly.  Volume 12 (Spring, 1972), pp. 3-31; (Summer, 1972), pp. 43-67.
Taylor, Frank G.  "An Analysis of Shaker Education:  The Life and Death of an Alternative Educational System, 1774-1950."  Ph.D .dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1976.
Thomas, Samuel W. and James C. Thomas.  The Simple Spirit:  A Pictorial Study of the Shaker Community at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.   Pleasnat Hill, Ky.:  Pleasant Hill Press, 1973.
Thurman, Suzanne.   "Dearly Loved Mother Eunice":  Gender, Motherhood, and Shaker Spirituality.  Church History, Vol. 66, No. 4, Dec., 1997, pp. 750-761.
Thurman, Suzanne.  "The Order of Nature, the Order of Grace:  Community Formation, Female Status, and Relations with the World in the Shaker Villages of Harvard and Shirley, Massachusetts, 1781-1875."  Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1994.
Union Village Seminar:  A two day program featuring nine speakers focusing on all aspects of life at the Shaker community of Union Village.  Jointly sponsored by the Warren County Historical Society and Otterbein Home, October 26 and 27, 1989.  Lebanon, Ohio:  The Warren County Historical Society, 1989.
Van Kolken, Diana.  Introducing the Shakers:  An Explanation and Directory.  Bowling Green, Ohio:  Gabriel's Horn Publishing Co., 1985.
Vanstory, Burnette.  "Shakerism and the Shakers in Georgia."  Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume 43 (1959), pp.353-64.
Walker, Alice.  "Gifts of Power:  The Writings of Rebecca Jackson."  In Search of Our Mothers Gardens.  New York:  Harcourt-Brace, 1983, pp. 71-82.
Weisbrod, Carol.  Boundaries of Utopia.  New York:  Pantheon Books, 1980.
Wertkin, Gerard C.  The Four Seasons of Shaker Life.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1986.
Williams, John S.  The Revolutionary War and Issachar Bates.  Old Chatham, New York:  The Shaker Museum Foundation, February, 1960.
Williams, Richard E., Cheryl Dorschner, ed.  Called and Chosen:  The Story of Mother Rebecca Jackson and the Philadelphia Shakers, ATLA Monograph Series, No. 17.  Metuchen, N.J. & London:  The Scarecrow Press, Inc. & The American theological Library Association, 1981.
Winchester, Alice.  "Shakertown at Pleasant Hill."  Historic Preservation.  Vol. 29 #4 (Oct.-Dec., 1977), pp. 13-20.
Whitson, Robley Edward, ed.  The Shakers:  Two Centuries of Spiritual Reflection.  New York, Ramsey, Toronto: Paulist Press, 1983.
Whitworth, John McKelvie.  God's Blueprints:  A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects.  London and Boston:  Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975.
Wisbey, Herbert A.  The Sodus Shaker Community.   Lyons, New York:  Wayne County Historical Society, 1982.

By Ex-Shakers

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Edwards, Sharon, compiler.  Shaker Books and Materials in the Walter Havinghurst Special Collections Library:  A Bibliography.   Oxford, Ohio:  Miami University, 1985.
MacLean, J.P.  A Bibliography of Shaker Literature with an Introductory Study of the Writings and Publications Pertaining to Ohio Believers.  Columbus, Ohio:  Fred J. Heer, 1905.  The first general bibliography of shaker works and related materials.
McKinstry, Richard E.  The Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection.  Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Publication, 1987
Meader, F. W., complied under his direction.  Catalogue of the Emma B. King Library of the Shaker Museum.  New York:  Old Chatham, 1970.
Pike, Kermit J., Chief Librarian.  A Guide To Shaker Manuscripts in the Library of the Western Reserve Historical Society with an Inventory of Its Shaker Photographs.  Cleveland, Ohio:  The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1974
Poppeliers, John, editor.  "Shaker Built":   A Catalog of Shaker Architectural Records from the Historical American Buildings Survey.  Washington:  HABS, 1974.
The Shaker Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society:  A Reel List of the Manuscripts and a Short Title List of the Printed Materials Contained in the Microform Collection.  Ann Arbor, Michigan:  University Microfilms International (UMI), 1977.
Richmond, Mary L.  Shaker Literature:  A Bibliography in Two Volumes. Volume I:  By the Shakers.  Volume II: About the Shakers.  Published by Shaker Community, Inc.  Hancock, Massachusetts and distributed by the University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1977.
Weimer, Mark F.  The William A. Hinds American Communities Collection.  Syracuse University Library Associates Courier.  Volume XXII, No.1 (Spring, 1987).
Winter, Esther C. & Joanna S. Ellett.  Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Collection of Shaker Literature (Rare Room).  Buffalo:  B & E County Public Library, 1967.
Wolfskill, Mary Margaret.  Library of Congress Shaker Collection. Washington, D.C.:  Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 1976.

Journals

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The Shaker Quarterly, published by the United Society of Shakers
The Berkshire Athenaeum [348] A full collection of The Manifesto can be found in
Journal for Shaker Studies
The Shaker Messenger  (no longer in print)
The Shaker World  (no longer in print)
The Shaker Spirit  magazine was published for only a year:

Fictional Works about the Shakers

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Barsam, Richard Meran, afterword, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.  A Peaceable Kingdom: 'The Shaker ABECEDARIUS.  (children's book)  New York, N.Y.:  Puffin Books:  A Division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1978.
Bial, Raymond.  Shaker Home. (children's book)  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Bolick, Nancy O'Keefe and Sallie G. Randolph, illustrated by Melissa Francisco.  Shaker Inventions.  (children's book) New York: Walker and Company, 1990.
Bolick, Nancy O'Keefe and Sallie G.Randolph, illustrated by Laura LoTurco.  Shaker Villages. (children's book)  New York:  Walker and Company, 1993.
Bunnell, Jean, ed.  Children at Shaker Village:  Rural Living in the Nineteenth Century:  Using Primary Sources to Learn About History.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers, 1990.
Deland, Margaret.  The Way to Peace.  New York:  Harper & Bros., 1910.
Downing, Michael.  Perfect Agreement.  Washington, D.C.:  Counterpoint, 1997.
Faber, Doris.  The Perfect Life:  The Shakers in America.  New York:  Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
Gaeddert, Louann.  Hope. (children's book)  Atheneum Books for Young Readers, N.Y., 1995.
Giles, Janice Holt.  The Believers:  A Novel of Shaker Life.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.  Reprint, Lexington, Ky.:  The University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
Gillon, Edmund V., Jr.  A Cut & Assemble Shaker Village:  Authentic Architectural Models in H-O Scale.  West Chester, Pa.:  Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1986.
Greene, Nancy Lewis.  Ye Olde Shaker Bells.   Lexington, Ky.:  Published by author,  1930.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  "The Canterbury Pilgrims," in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir.  Boston:  American Stationers' Company, 1833.  Collected in The Snow Image and Other Twice-told Tales.  Boston:  Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  "The Shaker Bridal,"  in Twice-told Tales.  Boston:  American Stationers' Co., 1837.  Also in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, Boston:  1838.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  "The Canterbury Pilgrims" and "The Shaker Bridal" in The Complete Novels & Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Ed., Norman Holmes Pearson.  New York:  The Modern Library, 1937.
Hickman, Janet.  Susannah.  (children's book)  New York:  Greenwillow Books, 1998.
Holden, Marietta.  The Story of Martha, or Love's Ordeal.  Boston:  American Printing Co., 1909.  (Published as Uncovered Ears and Opened Vision, by "The Princess,", 1904).
Howells, William Dean.  The Undiscovered Country.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1880.
Howells, William Dean.  The Day of Their Wedding.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1895.
Howells, William Dean.  A Parting and a Meeting.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1896.
Howells, William Dean.  The Vacation of the Kelwyns:  An Idyll of the Middle Seventies.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1920.
Jonas, Gerald.  "The Shaker Revival," (science fiction) Galaxy Magazine, February, 1970.
Joy, Arthur F.  The Queen of the Shakers.   Minneapolis, Minn.:  T.S. Denison & Co., 1960.
Leslie, Ann George.  Dancing Saints.  Garden City, N.Y.:  Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1943.
"Look at the Shakers."  Doncaster, U.K.:  Bessacarr Prints, 1994.
Moriarty, Kathleen M., illustrated by Mary Taylor.  A Shaker Sampler Coloring Book.  (children's book)  Old Chatham, N.Y.:  The Shaker Museum, 1981.
Norris, Zoe Anderson. They Too:  A Shaker Love Story. Harrodsburg, Kentucky:  Harrodsburg Herald, Inc., 1989.  Copyrighted as an unpublished work by Mary Chelf Jones, 1989.
Peck, Robert Newton.  A Day No Pigs Would Die.  (Juvenile)  New York:  Random House Sprinter Books, 1972.
Peck, Robert Newton.  A Part of the Sky.  Sequel to A Day No Pigs Would Die.  (Juvenile)  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Ray, Mary Lyn.  Angel Baskets:  A Little Story About the Shakers.  (children's book)  New Hampshire:  Martha Wetherbee Books, 1987.
Ray, Mary Lyn, illustrated by Jeanette Winter.  Shaker Boy.  (Children's book)  San Diego, New York, London: Browndeer Press, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.
Sanders, Joan. Shaker Child's Memories:  A Child's Craft Book with Patterns for Ten Simple Projects.  Elkin, N.C.:  The Author, 1986.
Sanders, Joan.  Shaker Stencil Designs.   Elkin, N.C.:  The Author, 1984.
Sears, Clara Endicott.  The Romance of Fiddler's Green.  Boston and New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.  Redwood:  A Tale.  New York:  E. Bless and E. White, 1824.  Reprint, New York:  Garrett Press, Inc., 1969.
"The Shakers."  Cobblestone, April, 1983.  For copies contact:  Cobblestone Publishing, 28 Main Street, Peterborough, N.H. 03458.  (603) 924-7209.
Smith, George Blake.  The Divine Comedy of John Venner.  Poseidon Press, 1992.
Thorne-Thomson, Kathleen.   Shaker Children, True Stories and Crafts.  (children's book)  Chicago:  Chicago Review Press, 1996.
Turner, Ann, illustrated by Wendell Minor.  Shaker Hearts.  (children's book)  Harper Collins Publishers, 1997.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas.  Susanna and Sue.  Boston and New York:  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909.
Williams, Jean Kinney. The Shakers.  (The American Religious Experience Series) Children's Book, grade 6 and up.  Watts, 1997.
Woodworth, Deborah.  A Deadly Shaker Spring. A Sister Rose Callahan Mystery.  New York: Avon Books, 1998.
Woodworth, Deborah.  Death of a Winter Shaker.  A Sister Rose Callahan Mystery.  New York:  Avon Books, 1997.
Woodworth, Deborah.  Sins of a Shaker Summer.  A Sister Rose Callahan Mystery. New York:  Avon Books, 1999.
Yolen, Jane.  The Gift of Sarah Barker. (Juvenile) New York:  Viking Press, 1981.
Yolen, Jane, illustrated by Betty Fraser.  Simple Gifts, the Story of the Shakers.  (Juvenile)  New York:  The Viking Press, 1976.
Zaroulis, Nancy.  Call the Darkness Light.  New York:  Doubleday and Company, 1979.  Reprint, Signet, New American Library, 1980.

Fictional Works about the Shakers

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Anderson, Cheryl P.  Shaker Hymnal:  A Facsimile Edition of the 1908 Hymnal of the Canterbury Shakers. Woodstock, N.Y.:  The Overlook Press, 1990.
Bell, Vicki P.  "Shaker Music Theory:  The Nineteenth-Century Treatise of Isaac Newton Youngs and Russel Haskell."  Ph.D dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1998.
Christenson, Donald E.  "Music of the Shakers from Union Village, Ohio:  A Repertory Study and Tune Index of the Manuscripts Originating in the 1840's."  Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1988.
Christenson, Donald E.  "A History of the Early Shakers and their Music".  The Hymn, XXXVIII/1 (January, 1988).
Christenson, Donald E.  "A Transcription to Modern Notation of a Shaker Hymnal by Isaac Youngs Based Upon His Theory Book."  Masters thesis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1976.
Collins, Mitzie, ed., and Roger Hall, and Colleen Liggett.  Joy of Angels:  Shaker Spirituals for Christmas and the New Year.  Rochester, New York:  Sampler Records Ltd., 1995.
Cook, Harold E.  Shaker Music:  A Manifestation of American Folk Culture.  Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1973.
Coulter, William and Barry Phillips.  Simple Gifts.  Arrangements of Shaker melodies from the albums Simple Gifts and Tree of Life.  Pacific, Mo.:  Mel Bay Publications, 1994.
Diamond, Pamela Hurley.  "Hands to Work and Hearts to God." Dance Magazine, Vol. 69, No. 5, May, 1995.  Pp. 43-45.
Emlen, Robert P.  "The Shaker Dance Prints."  Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society. Volume 17, Number 2 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 14-26.
Hall, Roger.  A Guide to Shaker Music-With Music Supplement.  (10 tunes in supplement)  Pine Tree Press, 1997.
Hall, Roger.  A Western Shaker Music Sampler. (12 Shaker spirituals from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana)  The Western Reserve Historical Society, 1976.
Hall, Roger.  The Happy Journey:  Thirty-five Shaker Spirituals Compiled by Clara Endicott Sears. (Includes a few songs from South Union)  Harvard, Mass.: the Fruitlands Museums, 1982.
Hall, Roger.  Joseph Brackett Simple Gifts:  Evolution of a Shaker Dance Song.  Pine Tree Press, 1997.
Hall, Roger, ed.  Love is Little:  A Sampling of Shaker Spirituals.  First Edition:  Holland, Michigan:  The World of Shaker, 1992.    Second Edition:  Sampler Records, 1995.
Hall, Roger.  "The Simple Gifts of Shaker Music".  Sing Out!  (The Folk Song Magazine)  Bethlehem, Pa., 1998, pp. 64-73.
McCully, Susan.  "Oh, I Love Mother, I Love Her Power:  Shaker Spirit Possession and the Performance of Desire." Theatre Survey.  Vol. 35, No. 1, May, 1994, pp. 88-98.
Patterson, Daniel W.  The Shaker Spiritual.  Princeton, New Jersey:  Yale University Press, 1979.
Smith, Harold Vaughn.  Oliver C. Hampton and Other Shaker Teacher-Musicians of Ohio and Kentucky, Ph.D. dissertation, Ball State University.  Ann Arbor, Michigan:  University Microfilms 82-091910.
Sturm, Ann Black, ed.  The Shaker Gift of Song:  A Book of Shaker Songs.  Berea, Ky.: Berea College Press, 1981.
Thomason, Jean Healan.  Shaker Manuscript Hymals from South Union , Kentucky:  With comment on the musical notation by Fann R. Herndon.  Introduction by Julia Neal.  Bowling Green, Ky.:  Folklore Society, 1967.

Cook Books

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Boice, Martha.  "...for remember it is Christmas":  Shaker Herbal Fare.  Dayton, Ohio:  Knot Garden Press, 4th Printing, 1992.
Carr, Sister Frances A.  Shaker Your Plate:  Of Shaker Cooks and Cooking.  Sabbathday Lake:  The United Society of Shakers, 1985 & 1986, Reprint: First University Press of New England, 1987.
Kremer, Elizabeth.  We Make You Kindly Welcome.  Harrodsburg, Kentucky:  Pleasant Hill Press, 1970.
Kremer, Elizabeth.  Welcome Back to Pleasant Hill.  Harrodsburg, Kentucky:  Pleasant Hill Press, 1977.
Lassiter, William Lawrence.  Shaker Recipes and Formulas for Cooks and Homemakers.  New York:  Greenwich Book Publishers, 1959.
Lindsay, Sister Bertha, ed. by Mary Rose Boswell.  Seasoned With Grace:  My Generation of Shaker Cooking.  Woodstock, Vermont:  The Countryman Press, 1987.
MacMillan, Norma.  In a Shaker Kitchen:  100 Recipes from the Shaker Tradition.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Miller, Amy Bess & Persis Fuller.  The Best of Shaker Cooking.  New York:  Macmillan, 1970.
Old Shaker Recipes.  Nashville, Indiana:  Bear Wallow Books, Publishers, Inc., 1982
Paige, Jeffrey (contributer) and James Haller. Cooking in the Shaker Spirit. Camden, Maine:  Yankee Books, 1990.
Paige, Jeffrey S.  The Shaker Kitchen:  Over 100 Recipes from Canterbury Shaker Village.  New York:  Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1994.
Piercy, Caroline B.  The Shaker Cook Book:  Not By Bread Alone.  New York:  Crown Publishers, Inc., 1953.
Piercy, Caroline and Arthur Tolve.  The Shaker Cookbook:  Recipes and Lore from the Valley of God's Pleasure.  Bowling Green, Ohio:  Gabriel's Horn Publishing Co., 1981.
Stewart, Jillian, ed.  Shaker Cooking.  New York-Avenel, New Jersey:  Crescent Books, 1991.
Tolve, Arthur and James Bissland III.  Sister Jennie's Desserts.  Bowling Green, Ohio:  Gabriel's Horn Publishing Co., 1983.
Whitcher, Sister Mary.  Shaker House-Keeper.  Shaker Village, N.H., March 1, 1882 (Reprint).

Cook Books

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Beale, Galen and Mary Rose Boswell.  The Earth Shall Blossom:  Shaker Herbs and Gardening.  Woodstock, Vermont:  The Countryman Press, Inc., 1991.
Buchanan, Rita.  The Shaker Herb and Garden Book.  Boston:  Houghton, 1996.
Herbrandson, Dee.  Shaker Herbs and their Medicinal Uses.  Albany, N.Y.:  Published by Shaker Heritage Society, 1985.
Miller, Amy Bess.  Shaker Herbs:  A History and Compendium.  New York:  Potter, 1976.
Miller, Amy Bess.  Shaker Medicinal Herbs.  Storey Books:  Published in association with Hancock Shaker Village, 1998.
Shaker Herbal Teas, Uses, Taxonomy, Growing Cycle.  Prepared by The Herb Department, United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

Architecture:

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Emerich, A. Donald.  "American Monastic; or, The Meaning of Shaker Architecture."  The Journal of the Victorian Society in America.  Volume 11, Numbers 3 and 4, 1992.
Gill, Brendan.  "Shaker Spirit."   Architectural Digest, Vol. 49, No. 3.  March, 1992, pp. 122-127+.
Grant, Jerry V.  Noble But Plain: The Shaker Meetinghouse at Mount Lebanon.  Old Chatham, N.Y.:  Shaker Museum and Library, 1994.
Hopping, D.M.G. and Gerald R. Watland. "The Architecture of the Shakers."  Antiques.  Vol. LXXII, #4 (October, 1957), pp. 335-339.
Lassiter, William Lawrence.  Shaker Architecture (Descriptions with Photographs and Drawings of Shaker Buildings at Mount Lebanon, New York, Watervliet, New York and West Pittsfield). New York:  Vantage Press, 1966.
Nicoletta, Julie.  The Architecture of the Shakers.  A Norfleet Press Book.  Woodstock, Vermont:  The Countryman Press, 1995
Poppeliers, John (editor).  "Shaker Built":   A Catalog of Shaker Architectural Records from the Historical American Buldings Survey.  Washington:  HABS, 1974.
Schiffer, Herbert, comp.  Shaker Architecture.  West Chester, Pennsylvania:  Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1979.
Weil, Ella.  "Shaker Architecture:  A Coomparative Study of Shaker Architecture in Twenty-Four Communities throughout hte Midwest and New England States:  An Analysis of Change in the Building Type;   Dwelling House, Meetinghouses, Ministry Houses, Trustees Office, Shops and Barns throughout Time.  Master's Thesis:  Eastern Michigan University, 1991.
Wolf, Peter M.  Shaker Heritage Historic District:   South Family Property Design and Implementation Program.  New York:   Wolf, 1977.

Shakers and the Arts

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Kaplan, Janet A.  The Quiet in the Land:   Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers:  A Conversation with Janet A. Kaplan.  Art Journal, New York. Vol. #57, Issue #2.  Summer 1998, pp. 4-27.
Larson, Kay. "A Month in Shaker Country." The New York Times, Sunday, August 10, 1997.
Morin, France.  Tim Yohn, ed., The Quiet in the Land.  Brochure designed by Sagmeister Inc.
Ratcliff, Carter.  Amazing Grace:  The Artful Simplicity of America's Shakers.  Review of the exhibit "Shaker Design" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.  Travel & Leisure, Vol. 16, No. 9, September, 1986, pp. 126-138.
Shakers:  Life and Production of a Community in the Pioneering Days of America.  An Exhibitiohn by the "Neue Sammlung".  Munich:  Die neue Sammlung, Staatliches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, 1974.
The Shakers:  Pure of Spirit, Pure of Mind.   Duxbury, Mass.:  Art Complex Museum, 1983.

Shaker Furniture, Crafts and Collectibles

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Abram, Norm.  Mostly Shaker from the New Yankee Workshop.    Boston:  Little, Brown and Company, 1992.
Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith Andrews.  The Community Industries of the Shakers.  Albany: State University of New York, 1932.
Andrews, Edward Deming, and Faith Andrews.  Religion In Wood:  A Book of Shaker Furniture.  Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press, 1966.
Andrews, Edward Deming.  Shaker Furniture:  The Craftmanship of an American Communal Sect.  New Haven, Conn.:  Yale University Press, 1937.
Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith Andrews.  Work and Worship:  The Economic Order of the Shakers.  Greenwich, Conn.:  New York Graphic Society, 1974.
Budis, Erin M.  Making His Mark:  The Work of Shaker Craftsman Orren Haskins.  Old Chatham, N.Y.:  Shaker Museum and Library, 1997.
Carpenter, Mary Grace and Charles H. Carptenter, Jr.
Catalog of Fancy Goods, 1910.  Reprint:  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers, 1992.
Close Ties:  The Relationship Between Kentucky Shaker Furniture Makers and Their Worldly Contemporaries:  An Exhibition Between Kentucky Shaker Furniture Makers and Their Worldly Contemporaries.  South Union, Ky.: Shaker Museum at South Union, 1994.
Comstock, Helen. "Shaker Crafts on View." Antiques.  Vol. LXXII (October, 1957), pp. 344ff.
Evelegh, Tessa.  Essential Shaker Style.   New York, N.Y.:  Ward Lock. Ltd. (Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Publishing Co)., 1995.
Furniture and Objects from the Faith and Edward Demming Andrews Collections Commemorating the Bicentenary of the American Shakers. Washington D.C.:  Renwick Galley, The Smithsonian, 1973.
Gibbs, James W. and Rober F. W. Meader. Shaker Clock Makers.  Columbia, Pa.:  National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc., #7 of a series, summer, 1972.
Gordon, Beverly.  Shaker Textile Arts.  Hanover, N.H.:  University Press of New England, 1980.
Grant, Jerry V. and Douglas R. Allen.  Shaker Furniture Makers.  Hanover, N.H.:  University Press of New England, 1989.
Handberg, Ejner.  Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware.  Stockbridge, Ma.:  Berkshire Traveller Press,  1980.
Handberg, Ejner.  Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware, Volume I.  Stockbridge, Ma.: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1973.
Handberg, Ejner.  Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware, Volume II.  Stockbridge, Ma.: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1975.
Handberg, Ejner.  Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware, Volume III.  Stockbridge, Ma.: Berkshire Traveller Press, 1977.
Handbert, Ejner.  Shop Drawings of Shaker Iron and Tinware.  Stockbridge, Ma.:  Berkshire House Publishers, 1993.
Horsham, Michael.  The Art of the Shakers.  Secaucus, New Jersey:  Chartwell Books, 1989.
Jeffrey, Jonathan and Donna Parker.  A Thread of Evidence:  Shaker Textile Industries at South Union, Kentucky. South Union, Ky.:  Shaker Museum at South Union, 1996.
Kassay, John.  The Book of Shaker Furniture.  Amherst, Ma.:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
Kennedy, Gerrie, Galen Beale and Jim Johnson.  Shaker Baskets and Poplarware.  Stockbridge, Ma.:  Berkshire House Publishers, 1992
Klamkin, Marian.  Hands to Work:  Shaker Folk Art & Industries.  New York:  Dood, Mead, 1972.
Marini, Stephen A., foreword.  In Time & Eternity:  Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age, 1872-1918.  Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers.
McGuire, John.  Basketry:  The Shaker Tradition.  Ashevlle, N.C.:  Lark Books, 1988.
Meader, Robert F.W.  An Illustrated Guide to Shaker Furniture.  New York:  Dover Publications, Inc., 1972.
Miller, Dr. M. Stephen.  A Century of Shaker Ephemera:  Marketing Community Industries, 1830-1930.  A loan exhibition at Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  New Britain, Connecticut:  published by Dr. M. Stephen Miller, 1988.
Moser, Thomas.  How To Build Shaker Furniture.  New York:  Sterling Publishing Co., 1979.
Muller, Charles R. and Timothy D. Rieman.  The Shaker Chair.  First published in 1984.  Amherst, Ma.:  The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Muller, Charles R.  The Shaker Way.   First Edition.  Worthington, Ohio:  Ohio Antique Review, 1979.
P�ladeau, Marius B.  "Characteristics of Early Shaker Chairs." Historic Preservation.  Vol. 22, #4 (Oct.-Dec., 1970), pp. 31-36.
Pennington, David A.and Michael B. Taylor.  Pictorial Guide to American Spinning Wheels. Sabbathday Lake, Maine:  The United Society of Shakers, 1975.
Pierce, Kerry.  Making Shaker Woodenware.   New York, N.Y.:  Sterling Publishing Co., 1998.
Purcell, L. Edward.  The Shakers.  New York:  Crescent Books, 1992.
Raycraft, Don and Carol.  Shaker:  A Collectors Source Book.  Des Moines, Iowa:  Wallace Homestead, 1980.
Rieman, Timothy D. and Jean M. Burks.  The Complete Book of Shaker Furniture.  New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993.
Rieman, Timothy D.  Shaker:  The Art of Craftsmanship, The Mount Lebanon Shaker Collection. Essay by Susan L. Buck.  Alexandria, Virginia: Art Services International, 1995.
Rose, Milton and Emily Mason.  Shaker Traditions and Designs.  New York:  Crown Publishers, Inc., 1975.
Rubin, Cynthia.  Shaker Miniature Furniture.   New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1979.
A Sense of Place:  Kentucky Shaker Furniture and Regional Influence:  An Exhibition of Antebellum Kentucky and Tennessee Furniture.  South Union, Ky.:  Shaker Museum at South Union,  1996.
Serette, David.  Shaker Smalls.  Sebasco:  The Cardigan Press, 1983.
The Shakers:  Pure of Spirit, Pure of Mind.  Duxbury, Ma.:  Art Complex Museum, 1983.
Shea, John G.  Making Authentic Shaker Furniture:  Measured Drawings of Museum Classics.  Re-publication of The American Shakers and Their furniture, 1971.  New York:  Dover Publications, Inc., 1962.
Sprigg, June.  By Shaker Hands.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
Sprigg, June.  "The Development of Shaker Design".  The Magazine Antiques.  April, 1986, pp. 813-823.
Sprigg, June.  Photographs by Linda Butler.  Innerlight:   The Shaker Legacy.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
Sprigg, June.  Shaker Design.  New York & London:  W.W. Norton & Company, 1986.
Sprigg, June and David Larkin.  Shaker:  Life, Work and Art.  New York:  Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc., 1987.
Sprigg, June and Jim Johnson.  Shaker Woodenware:  A Field Guide, Volume I.  Stockbridge, Ma.:  Berkshire House Publishers, 1991. (Oval boxes and carriers, dippers, sieves, pails and tubs)
Sprigg, June and Jim Johnson.  Shaker Woodenware:  A Field Guide, Volume II.  Stockbridge, Ma.:  Berkshire House Publishers, 1992.
Thrasher, William.  Kindred Spirits:  The Eloquence of Function in American and Japanese Art of Daily Life.  San Diego, Ca.:  The Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art, 1995.
True Gospel Simplicity:  Shaker Furniture in New Hampshire:  an Exhibition of the New Hampshire Society, July 3, 1974 to September 30, 1974.   Concord:  The Society, 1974.
Wetherbee, Martha.  Martha Wetherbee's Handbook of New Shaker Baskets.  Sanbornton, N.H.:  The aurthor, 1981.
Wetherbee, Martha and Nathan Taylor.  Shaker Baskets.  Sanbornton, N.H.:  Martha Wetherbee Basket Shop, 1988.

VHS Videos about The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing:

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The Shakers:  Hands To Work  Hearts To God    A film by Ken Burns and Amy Stechler Burns. A Florentine Films Production.  58 minutes color, 1985.  Distributed by Direct Cinema Limited. Inc. Phone (213) 652-8000.  There is a companion book:  Amy Stechler Burns & Ken Burns.  The Shakers:  Hands To Work  Hearts to God.  New York:  Portland House.
The Shakers  Narrated by Ben Kingsley.  Produced by Films For the Humanities & Sciences.  52 minutes color.  For more information call 800/257-5126 or 609-275-1400.
The Shakers in America   Produced by Applause Video, 1991.  28 minutes. V2003   ISBN: 0-940630-27-3.
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Shaker Images:  "Pleasant Hill:  Remembered, Restored, Revisited."   This videotape serves as a good introduction to the Shakers and to their utopian dream in central Kentucky, and to those early pioneers in preservation, whose foresight rescued 30 historic Shaker structures from ruin and decay.  27 minutes color.
Shaker Images:   "The Architectural Heritage of the Shakers at Pleasant Hill." 21 minutes.
Shaker Images:   James Lowry Cogar:  A Living  Tribute." 21 minutes.
Shaker Images:   "Recollections of Mercer County."  27 minutes.
Shaker Images:  "With Hands and Hearts"  Famed actress Helen Hayes narrates this dramatic portrayal of the Shaker experience at Pleasant Hill.  25 minutes color.
Main Street:  South Union Shakers.  Bowling Green, Ky.:  WKYU-TV, Western Kentucky University, 1990.
The Shakers:  The Frugal Gourmet   MPI-Home Video.  Actual Shaker recipes:  Baked Bean Soup, Shaker Fresh Herb Soup, Shaker Daily Loaf, Oyster & Ham Pie, Stuffed Onions.
Into A More Perfect Order   Produced by Michael A. Breeding.  Narrated by Peter Thomas. TRT 14:58.  Pleasant Hill Shakers
"I Don't Want to be Remembered as a Chair" Produced by Jane Treays for the BBC.  Unfortunately, this excellent video in unavailable in the USA.  You may be able to get a copy if you call the BBC office in New York City.
E-Mail [350] The Village Woodsmith Video Series:  "How to" videos from the shop of Garry Smith in Otselic Valley, Upstate New York.  Videos on how to make a Shaker Clock,  Shaker Oval Boxes, and a Shaker Hall Table.  For more information

Audio Tapes and CDs of Shaker Music:

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Angels:  Voices From Eternity   The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen, and Tod Machover.  Angels is a guided tour in music of the Angel world, combining Gregorian chant, early American hymns, and Shaker spirituals with computer-generated sound.  Shaker songs include:  Angel of Light, Father William's March, Declaration of the Mighty Angels, Your Camps Shall be Searched, The Call of an Angel, O Little Children,  and Trumpet of Salvation.   ERATO  1997  Timing:  59:09.  (14773-2)
All at Home:  The Singers of Lower Shaker Village   Directed by Mary Ann Haagen.  Enfield, New Hampshire.  Thirty-four Gift Songs, Hymns, and Anthems.  A Celebration of the Shaker Musical Tradition.  IMPACT MEDIA  1995.  (CD5020)
Bow and Be Simple  South Union Shaker Quartet,  South Union, Kentucky
Early Shaker Spirituals  The beauty and grace of Shaker culture is reflected in these authentic songs, rendered by members of the United Society of Shakers of Sabbathday Lake, Maine -- one of the few surviving Shaker communities in Maine. This collection of forty19th century Shaker spirituals (including Tis the Gift to Be Simple) sung in traditional unaccompanied style is the only album available of the Shakers themselves singing their unique music.  Produced by Daniel W. Patterson.  Rounder  1977.  (ROUN0078)
Gentile Words   Randy Folger.  Twenty-six Shaker tunes sung a capella by Randy, music interpreter at Pleasant Hill.
Harp of Joy   Diane Schneider.  Recorded in the Meeting House at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Joy of Angels:  Shaker Spirituals for Christmas & the New Year  Vocal Music of the Shaker Communities.  Thirty-eight songs of the season.  Randy Folger, Colleen Liggett, Kathy Leigh Johnson, Mitzie Collins, The Sampler Chorus, and The Eastman Bach Children's Chorus.  Sampler Records Ltd., 1995.  Timing: 71 minutes.  (Sampler 9528)
Love is Little:  A Sampling Shaker Spirituals   Vocal Music of the Shaker Communities.  Thirty-seven songs.  Roger Hall, Mitzie Collins and The Sampler Chorus.  Sampler Records Ltd., 1991.  Timing 53 minutes.  (Sampler 9222)
Music of the Shakers   Folkway Records, 1976.
O Hear Their Music Ring:  The Singers of Lower Shaker Village   Directed by Mary Ann Wilde.  Enfield, New Hampshire.  Thirty-three Songs of the Shakers.  A re-creation of the Shaker musical experience.  IMPACT MEDIA  1992.  (CD5001)
Shaker Road (the quiet in the land)  Domenico de Clario, piano.  CD 1:  Shaker Road: quit existing.  Thirty blindfold piano-performances.  CD 2:  Shaker Road:  the diver's clothes lying empty.  Blindfold improvised piano-performance.  Produced by Domenico de Clario, 1997.
The Shaker Gift of Song   Ann Black Sturm.  Recorded by Musica Antiqua in the Meetinghouse at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1980.
Simple Gifts:  Shaker Chants and Spirituals  The Boston Camerata, The Schola Cantorum of Boston and The Shaker Community of Sabbathday Lake, Maine.  Thirty-four songs.  ERATO  1995  Timing  59:53.  (4509-98491-2)
Music Buffs [351] Shaker Songs:  Come to Zion  Hancock Shaker Village.  Northumbega Harmony and singers from Hancock Shaker Village.  This recording is not considered a good recording.  Go to
A Shaker Trilogy:  William Coulter & Barry Phillips.  Instrumental arrangements of Shaker Music.  Gourd Music.: