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Saints, Sinners and Reformers
The Burned-Over District Re-Visited
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Bibliography
This limited bibliography can be enhanced by your local library with
the latest books on these subjects.
One very readable and informative book covers most of the topics discussed
under the above title. It is:
Tyler, Alice. Freedoms Ferment: Phases of American Social History
until 1860. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis. 1944.
Other volumes on specific topics are:
ORSON FOWLER: OCTAGON HOUSES AND PHRENOLOGY
Fowler, Orson S. The Octagon House; A Home For All.
Dover. New York. 1973.
Stern, Madeline. Heads and Headlines, the Phrenological
Fowler. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. 1971.
JEMIMA WILKINSON, THE UNIVERSAL PUBLICK FRIEND
Carmer, Carl. Genesee Fever. Farrar and Rinehart.
New York. 1941. (A delightful novel based on early western New York history.
It includes Jemima Wilkinson as one of it characters.)
Cleveland, Stafford. History and Directory of Yates
County. Penn Yan, New York. 1873. (An original source for serious
scholars of Jemima Wilkinson and her group.)
Wisbey, Jr., Herbert. Pioneer Prophetess. Jemima
Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend. Cornell University Press.
Ithaca, N.Y. 1964 (The only complete study of Jemima Wilkinson and her
followers, Very readable.)
Note #1: Papers concerning Jemima Wilkinson are on file
on microfilm in the "Collection of Regional History" in the Cornell University
Library.
Note #2: A small collection of Jemima Wilkinson artifacts
are on display in the Yates County Historical Society's "Oliver House"
in Penn Yan, New York. Her carriage is in the Carriage Museum of the Granger
Museum in Canandaigua, New York.
REVIVALISM AND MILLENIALISM IN WESTERN NEW YORK
Barkun, Michael. Crucible of the Millenium: The Burned-Over
District of New York in the 1840s. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse,
NewYork. 1986.
Cross, Whitney R. The Burned-Over District, The Social
and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York,
1800-1850. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, N.Y. 1950. (The definitive
work on the subject. Not for bedtime reading.)
Hardman, Keith. Charles Grandison Finney, 1792-1875:
Revivalist and Reformer. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse, N.Y.
1987.
Johnson, Charles. The Frontier Camp Meeting: Religion's
Harvest Time. Southern Methodist University Press. Dallas, Texas.
1955, 1985.
Numbers, Ronald and Jonathan M. Butler. The Disappointed:
Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century. University
of Indiana Press. Bloomington, Indiana. 1987.
Rowe, David. Thunder and Trumpets: Millerites and
Dissenting Religion in Upstate New York, 1800-1850. Chico, California.
1985.
Sweet, William W. Revivalism in America: Its Origins,
Growth, and Decline. Scribner. New York. 1944.
Sweet, William W. The Story of Religion in America.
Harpers. New York. 1950.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony, A Biography.
New York University Press. New York. 1988.
Bacon, Margaret. Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia
Mott. Walker. New York. 1980.
Banner, Lois. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for
Women's Rights. Little, Brown. Boston. 1980.
Fuller, Margaret. Women in the Nineteenth Century.
Reprint of the 1845 Edition. W.W. Norton. New York. 1971.
Lutz, Alma. Created Equal: A Biography of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, 1815-1902. John Day. New York. 1940.
Melder, Keith, Beginnings of Sisterhood: The American
Women's Rights Movement, 1800-1850. Shocken. New York. 1977.
Scott, Anne and Andrew Scott. One-Half The People;
The Fight For Women's Suffrage. University of Illinois Press. Chicago.
1975.
Stanton, Elizebth Cady. Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences
1851-1897. Reprint by Shocken. New York. 1971.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Women's Bible.
(1898). Reprint by The Coalition Task Force On Women and Religion. Seattle.
1974.
JOHN HUMPHREY NOYES AND THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY
Carden, M.L. Oneida: Utopian Community to Modern
Corporation. John Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. 1969, and
Harper, Row. New York. 1971.
Eastlake, Allen. The Oneida Community. AMS Press.
New York. 1973.
Hayden, Dolores. Seven American Utopias: The Architecture
of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1970. MIT Press. Cambridge, Mass.
1976
Holloway, Mark. Heavens on Earth. Dover. New
York. 1966.
Klaw, Spencer. Without Sin. Allen Lane, The
Penguin Press. New York. 1993. (Has the most up-to-date bibliography on
Noyes and Oneida in its "Notes" section.)
Morse, Flo. Yankee Communes, Another American Way.
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. New York. 1971.
Nordhoff, Charles. The Communistic Societies of the
U.S. (1875). Reprinted by Hillary House Publishers. New York. 1961.
(Nordhoff visited and wrote about all the extant communities in his day.)
Noyes, Corinna. The Days of My Youth. Mansion
House. Kenwood, New York. 1960.
Noyes, Pierrepont. A Goodly Heritage. Rinehart.
New York. 1958. (By the stirpiculture son of John Humprey Noyes and President
for many years of the Oneida Community Corporation.)
Noyes, Pierrepont. My Father's House, An Oneida Boyhood.
Farrar and Rinehart. New York. 1937.
Parker, Robert A. A Yankee Saint; John Humphrey Noyes
and the Oneida Community. Putnam. New York. 1935.
Robertson, Constance Noyes. Oneida Community, An
Autobiography. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse, New York. 1970.
Robertson, Constance Noyse. Oneida Community Profiles.
Mansion House. Kenwood, New York.
Robertson, Constance Noyes. Oneida Community: The
Break-up, 1876-1881. Syracuse University Press. Syracuse, New York.
1970.
Thomas, Robert D. The Man Who Would Be Perfect: John
Humphrey Noyes and the Utopian Impulse. Philadelphia. 1977.
Worden, Harriet. Old Mansion House Memories.
Oneida, New York. Privately published. 1950. (Articles written by Harriet
Worden, the mother of Pierrepont Noyes who was one of the stirpiculture
children of John Humphrey Noyes. She edited the Oneida Community Newsletter
for many years.)
Note: The Oneida Community archives are held by the University
Library of Syracuse University.
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