Established in 1995, The Milton and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College holds a collection of videotaped interviews, numbering over 450 entries, with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics. The collection generally focuses on artists associated with mainstream jazz and the swing era. Members of bands led by Count Basie, Duke…

Correspondence of the International Institute of China and other material related to that institution and to Gilbert Reid, its director.

A monthly publication of the House of David, Benton, Harbor, Michigan.

The Oneida Community was a religiously based, socialist group, located in Oneida, New York, of about 250 people dedicated to living as one family and to sharing all property, work, and love. Lead by John Humphrey Noyes, the community flourished from 1848-1880. The OC were also prolific publishers and promoters of socialist and reform causes. Among…

​A​ weekly newspaper published by​ the​ ​International Peace Mission Movement​ founded by Reverend Major Jealous Divine​ (​Father Divine​)​​, of Harlem, New York.​

Hamilton College Student Newspapers.

The Hamilton College Archives hold Hamilton and Kirkland College records and personal papers of enduring value from administrators, faculty, students, and alumni from the founding of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy to the present.

Periodical publication of the Koreshan Unity, founded by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed (Koresh), Chicago, Illinois. Began in 1889?, Quarterly, 1945-, Monthly, <1925>-1944.

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…

A weekly periodical published by the Father Divine Peace Mission beginning in 1937. This website currently contains vol. 1, no. 19 (July 20, 1937) - vol. 5, no. 52 (Dec. 25, 1941).

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.

A collection of 268 postcards collected by Dorothy (Shakespear) Pound, wife of Ezra Pound, showing correspondence between her, her friends, her relatives, and her husband. The famous modernist poet Ezra Pound attended Hamilton College from 1903-1905. Hamilton College holds additional archival materials by and relating to Ezra Pound and his…

This is a collection of letters and photographs related to Elia Yovtcheff, class of 1877. Most of the correspondence is between Elia Yovcheff and Edward North, a professor of Greek of Hamilton College from 1904 to 1934. Non-digital printed materials can be found in the College Archives of the Hamilton College Library.

The collection consists of digitized materials related to the Shakers.

The Topolobampo cooperative colony was founded in 1886 by a group of American colonists at Sinaloa, Mexico, at the head of the Gulf of California. Leader Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916) was a surveyor, civil engineer, and utopian socialist. He dreamed of establishing a railroad from Texas to the site of "Pacific City," his ideal planned settlement.…

This journal was edited by Jean Baptiste Andre Godin in 1871 and translated in 1886 by members of Albert Kimsey Owen's planned community Pacific City in Topolobampo, Mexico.

Periodical publication of the Koreshan Unity, founded by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed (Koresh), Chicago, Illinois.

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.