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English
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This revealing and poignant film by Ken Burns portrays 200 years of Shaker life in America, guided by the recollections of the three surviving members of the faith, along with a wealth of archival material from over 40 collections. Explore every aspect of this strange and noble sect that produced some of the greatest architecture and furniture in American history.
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Corinth Books
Pub. Date
[1961]
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English
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The experiment at Brook Farm attracted such visitors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and Charles A. Dana. In characterizations punctuated with humor, author Lindsay Swift's portrait of "this most romantic incident of New England Transcendentalism" examines the farm's members and customs, and how the farm affected the life of everyone who visited.
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English
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"From 1848 to 1881, a small utopian colony in upstate New York--the Oneida Community--was known for its shocking sexual practices, from open marriage and free love to the sexual training of young boys by older women. And in 1881, a one-time member of the Oneida Community--Charles Julius Guiteau--assassinated President James Garfield in a brutal crime that shook America to its core. An Assassin in Utopia is the first book that weaves together these...
18) A simple change
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Missouri, 1881. Joining the communal society of the Amana Colonies isn't what Jancey Rhoder planned, but when unforeseen circumstances force her family to make difficult decisions, she gives up her teaching position in a Kansas City orphanage and moves with her parents to Iowa. Her besotted suitor, Nathan Woodward, is determined to get Jancey to change her mind. And Jancey herself isn't sure what she's gotten herself into when the simple life of the...
