Hancock Village, Mass.
Villages & Museums
Crafts
Memoirs & Visitors' Accounts
- Shakers Compendium important 1859 book by Shaker leader F. W. Evans; full text
- Autobiography of a Shaker by F. W. Evans (1869), original account
- Autobiography by Evans, part 2 (1869)
- "Fifteen Years a Shakeress" (1872) memoir part 1, (author is anonymous--does not reveal her name; what is here attitude toward social control among Shakers?)
- "Fifteen Years a Shakeress" 1872 memoir pt 2
- "Fifteen Years a Shakeress" 1872 memoir pt 3
- William Dean Howells, "A Shaker Village" 1876 travel account by a leading novelist
- 1857 Travel Account New Lebanon
- "A Shaker Community" by James K. Reeve; describes Union Village, near Cincinnati in 1892, long after its prime
Books: Overviews
- Andrews, Edward Deming, The People Called Shakers: A Search for the Perfect Society. (1953). Excellent introduction.
- Duffield, Holley, Historical Dictionary of the Shakers (2000)
- Stein, Stephen J. The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers. (1992). This is the best scholarly history.
On-Line Articles
- Brief History
- Mother Ann Lee short biography by leading scholar
- Karl Mang, "The Shakers" (1974) general overview
- D'Ann Campbell, "Women's Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised--1810 to 1860 " (1978) major scholarly article on Shaker women
- Marsha Mihok, "Shaker Apocalyptism" (1998) serious theology
- 1823 analysis of Shaker religion anonymous essay
- Murray, John E., "Determinants of Membership Levels and Duration in a Shaker Commune, 1780-1880" (1995) demography
- Murray, John E. and Cosgel, Metin M., "Market, Religion, and Culture in Shaker Swine Production, 1788-1880" (1998) economics
Books: Specialized
- Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews, Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect (1964)
- Andrews, Edward Deming and Faith. Work and Worship Among the Shakers: Their Craftsmanship and Economic Order. (1974).
- Brewer, Priscilla J. Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives. (1986).
- Burns, Deborah E., Shaker Cities of Peace, Love, and Union: A History of the Hancock Bishopric (1993)
- Humez, Jean, ed. Mother's First-Born Daughters: Early Shaker Writings on Women and Religion (1993)
- Nicoletta, Julie, The Architecture of the Shakers (1996)
