The Oneida Community, Part I

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The Industrial Revolution of the 1830s provoked a considerable amount of anxiety in the United States. While some turned their attention to combatting the scourge of alcohol, others ran away from the new society created by industrialization. Looking for connection and a return to simpler times, many Americans joined groups that offered the perfect society. One such community, in Oneida, New York promised such a society, but as we'll discover this week, they found a bit more than they may have bargained for. 

Host: Josh

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Further Reading 

Robert H. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination, Oxford University Press, (1994).

Carl J. Guarneri, The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America, Cornell University Press, (1991).

Trizah Miller Herrick  and Robert S. Fogarty, Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller’s Intimate Memoir, Indiana University Press, (2000).

Spencer Klaw, Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community, Penguin, (1993).

Ellen Wayland-Smith, Oneida: From Free-Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table, Picador, (2016).

Syracuse Library Oneida Community Collection.

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​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)