Hamilton College Student Newspapers.

This is a collection of materials related to the Harmony Society. The Society was a Christian theosophy and pietist group founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785. Due to religious persecution by the Lutheran Church and the government in Württemberg, the group moved to the United States, where representatives initially purchased land in Butler County,…

This journal was published as their official monthly periodical from 1871 to 1899 -- though it's title changed four times: - The Shaker (1871-1872) - Shaker and Shakeress (1873-1875) - The Shaker (1876-1877) - The Shaker Manifesto (1878-1882), - The Manifesto (1883-1899). We display images and transcription of every page of a full run of the…

A monthly publication of the New and Latter House of Israel, New Brompton, England, addressed to all sects and denominations.

The Kerista commune existed in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California, from 1971 to 1991. The Kerista religion was founded in 1956 in New York City by World War II veteran John Peltz Presmont, who became known as Bro Jud Presmont. The Keristans practiced polyfidelity, in which up to twenty-four or thirty-six partners (an even…

Correspondence of Maj. (Baron) Friedrich von Steuben (1730-1794). Baron Steuben, born in Magdeburg, Prussia, served under Washington at Valley Forge, rose to the position of Inspector-General of the Continental Army in 1778 and later was a participant in the founding of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy, the predecessor of Hamilton College.

Catalogues of Hamilton College.

The Amana Society collection contains materials of the Community of True Inspiration held by the Special Collections Department of Hamilton College. The Community of True Inspiration, today's Amana Society, is a Pietist sect that began in south central Germany in 1714. The Inspirationists, like the Shakers, were influenced by the "French Prophets,"…

Sun Ra Research is a an oral history project conducted by John and Peter Hinds. Since 1995 the Hinds brothers have published their interviews with the jazz musician Sun Ra and members of his band, the Arkestra, in their magazine Sun Ra research. This collection features fully text searchable digital versions of the original issues of Sun Ra…

The Special Collections of Hamilton College have nearly complete runs of four periodicals published by the Koreshan Unity: The Guiding Star (Chicago, 1887-1889); The Plowshare and Pruning Hook (San Francisco, 1891-1895); The Flaming Sword (Chicago and Estero, 1890-1948); and The Salvator and Scientist (Allegheny, Pa., 1895-1896). Altogether the…

Father Divine's International Peace Mission Movement is based at Woodmont outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its leader Reverend Major Jealous Divine, usually called Father Divine, began attracting followers in the American South during the 1910s. By 1919 the movement was based at Sayville, New York; and in 1933 Father Divine established a…

This is a collection of photographs related to the Snow Hill Cloister near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. A finding aid to Snow Hill Cloister manuscripts in the Communal Societies Collection is also available.

Victoria (Claflin) Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) and her younger sister Tennessee Claflin (October 26, 1844 – January 18, 1923) were suffragist activists who promoted their ideas in their "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" which began publication in 1870. It was one of the first newspapers founded by women in the United States.

Correspondence and other materials related to William Washington Farwell (Class of 1837).

160 letters related to Lucinda (Morrison) Dean (1795-1883), daughter-in-law of James Dean (first European settler of Westmoreland and Iroquois translator), a subcollection of letters from the Dean-Judson Family Papers held by the College Archives. The collection includes letters from Lucinda’s daughter Ellen Dean Graham and her husband Hiram James…

Materials related to The Israelite's House of David and Mary's City of David.

Arthur Edward Waite was an author and creator or joiner of societies important in the history of modern occultism and mysticism. He edited The Unknown World, proclaiming it would investigate “those mysteries which are called transcendental, occult, and mystic.” Waite was a member of various Golden Dawn and Rosicrucian sects beginning in the 1890s.

These are materials published by the Jezreelite community of Kent, England, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This movement, also known as the "New and Latter House of Israel," inspired Benjamin and Mary Purnell to later establish the Israelite House of David community in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

The Lesser Antilles Islands, located in the Caribbean Sea, were a center of European conquest and colonization. Research resources accessible here are drawn from the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, originally developed by Walter Beinecke, Jr., as well as the collection of the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society. The combined collections…

The Church of the Messiah was founded by George Jones Adams who was the leader of a splinter sect of the Latter-day Saints formed after the death of the prophet Joseph Smith Jr. Adams initially followed schismatic leader James Jesse Strang, but was excommunicated from his sect in 1851. By the late 1850s he formed the Church of the Messiah, which…