The Oneida Community was one of the more unusual utopian social experiments in 19th-century America. This volume reproduces the diary of a Community member written in 1876-7. It deals with love, aggression, jealousy and the conflict between private desire and public good.
The Oneida Community was one of the more unusual utopian social experiments in 19th-century America. This volume reproduces the diary of a Community m...
Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and '30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group, a scandal that gave newspapers during the first years after World War I some added spice. Still, others may know it as a religious communal society founded in 1903, which has a few adherents today.
What is this strange group and how can these diverse images be reconciled? In the first in-depth study of the House of David, originally published in 1981, Robert S. Fogarty places the sect in the Anglo-Israelite...
Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and '30s. Others may recall the sex scandal asso...