Richard W. Couper Press
The Couper Press publishes scholarship on communal studies and other topics that highlight the rich holdings of the Hamilton College Library’s Special Collections and Archives. The press was established in 2006 under the direction of Couper Librarian Randall Ericson and named in honor of Richard W. Couper ’44, a Hamilton alumnus, life trustee, and benefactor of the Burke Library. The press publishes a quarterly journal and three monograph series.
Books from 2012
John Humphrey Noyes on Sexual Relations in the Oneida Community: Four Essential Texts, John Humphrey Noyes and Anthony Wonderly
The Richmond Family and the Shakers, Stephen J. Paterwic
Submissions from 2011
Free Press of the House of Israel: The First Publication of Benjamin Purnell
Pilgrims and Martyrs: The Engraved Title Page of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror, Jeff Bach
Peter Ayers, Defender of the Faith, Galen Beale
The Harvard Shaker Cemetery, Roben Campbell
The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers—Part Two: “Voyages of the Shaker Ship and Other Adventures, both Legal and Social”, Christian Goodwillie
Two Early Photographs of Amana, Peter Hoehnle
The Shakers through French Eyes, E. Richard McKinstry
Partake a Little Morsel: Popular Shaker Hymns of the Nineteenth Century, Carol Medlicott
The Days of My Youth: A Childhood Memoir of Life in the Oneida Community, Corinna Ackley Noyes
How the Harmonists Suffered Disharmony: Schism in Communal Utopias, Donald E. Pitzer
The Tribulations of the White Water Shakers: The Child Molestation Trial of 1840, Thomas Sakmyster
The Story of Brother Ricardo’s Song, Darryl Charles Thompson
Making the Bible Argument: John H. Noyes’ Mission Statement for the Oneida Community, Anthony Wonderley
“Freedom of the Press is Guaranteed Only to Those Who Own the Presses”, Henry M. Yaple
Submissions from 2010
A Statement Concerning the Mob at Enfield
The Shakers of Canterbury: Their Agriculture and Their Machinery, Elizabeth Gleason Bervy
The Mob at Enfield: Introduction, Elizabeth De Wolfe
Black Shaker Minstrels and the Comic Performance of Shaker Worship, Robert P. Emlen
Strangers Along the Trail: Peoria’s Shaker Apostates Enter the World, Patricia L. Goitein
The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers—Part One: “From a Spirit of Detraction and Slander”, Christian Goodwillie
“Cummings and Goings”: The Impact of Shakerism on the Family of Edward T. Cummings, Mary Ann Haagen
A Bruised Idealist: David Lamson, Hopedale, and the Shakers, Peter Hoehnle
Benn Pitman's "Visit to the Shaker Settlement—Whitewater Village, O.": Introduction, David D. Newell
The History of the Shaker Gathering Order, Stephen J. Paterwic
Visit to the Shaker Settlement— Whitewater Village, O., Benn Pitman
Medical Practice in the Harvard Shaker Church Family 1834-1843, Merry B. Post
Independency of the Mind: Aquila Massie Bolton, Poetry, Shakerism, and Controversy, Sandra A. Soule
Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899, Glendyne R. Wergland
Submissions from 2009
William Adee Whitehead’s Visit to the Shakers: Introduction, Elizabeth De Wolfe and Scott De Wolfe
Heaven In A Hollow Earth: The Shaker-Koreshan Connection, Christian Goodwillie
Letter from Richard McNemar to Laurence Roelosson: Introduction, Christian Goodwillie
Daughter of the Shakers: The Story of Eleanor Brooks Fairs, Johanne Grewell
Conflict and Tribulation on the Frontier: The West Union Shakers and Their Retreat, Carol Medlicott
Remembering Gus Kermes, Sandra A. Soule
Robert White Jr., Sandra A. Soule
Birth, Life, and Death of Olive Branch, 1896-1924, Vernon Squire
Celebrating and Sacralizing Violence: Testimonies Concerning Ann Lee and the Early Shakers, Stephen J. Stein
“Rather Than Ever Milk Again”: Shaker Sisters’ Refusal to Milk at Mount Lebanon and Watervliet — 1873-1877, Lauren A. Stiles
The Abuse of Spirit Messages during the Shaker Era of Manifestations: “A hard time of it in this hurrycane of gifts, to know what is revelation and what is not”, Glendyne Wergland
Memorandum of Peregrinations by Land & Water. Recorded for My Own Amusement. Vol. 2nd from July 1830 to May 1832 by W.A.W. [excerpt], William Adee Whitehead
Watervliet Shakers through the Eyes of Oneida Perfectionists, 1863-1875, Anthony Wonderley
Submissions from 2008
A Dialogue Between George the Third of Great-Britain and his Ministers
Putting Sodus Shaker Village On The Map, Walter A. Brumm
Harmonisches Gesangbuch 1827: The Hymnal of a Religious Community in Early Nineteenth-Century America, Hedwig T. Durnbaugh
“Late Recruits for Britain”: Anti-Shaker Propaganda During the American Revolution, David D. Newell
From Bishop Hill to Pleasant Hill: The Swedish Shaker Experience, John E. Norton
The Shaker Peace Conference of 1905: Witness and Hope at the North Family of Mount Lebanon, Stephen Paterwic
New Lebanon’s Gifts to the Western New York Shakers, Stephen J. Paterwic
“The Mythical Structure is Created”: Planning and Construction of the Center Family Dwelling House, Mount Lebanon, 1856-1868, Lauren A. Stiles
From the Russells to the Pilots: The Beginning and End of North Union, Cathie Winans
Submissions from 2007
Michigan’s Siberia: The House of David on High Island, Clare E. Adkin Jr.
Letters, Sally Dean and Phineas Fletcher
The Road From Harmony, Eileen Aiken English
A Sampling of Rare Shaker Broadsides at Hamilton College Library, Christian Goodwillie
The Shaker Leaf Song: Solving a Perplexing Puzzle, Roger L. Hall
Church of Christ unto a People in Kentucky & the Adjacent States, David Meacham, Amos Hammond, and Ebenezer Cooly
The Copley-Lyman Shaker Family of Enfield, Connecticut: An Annotated Genealogy, M. Stephen Miller
Mother Lucy’s Last Visit to Watervliet: Introduction, David D. Newell
Church of Christ unto a People in Kentucky & the Adjacent States: Introduction, Ralph Stenstrom
Sally Dean and Her Letter to “Respected Friend Phineas”: Introduction, Glendyne Wergland
Visiting the Shakers, 1778-1849, Glendyne R. Wergland
Submissions from 2006
William Scales' 1789 "Mystery of the People Called Shakers": Introduction, David D. Newell
The Mystery of the People Called Shakers, Laid Open, and Their Ministration Exploded, for Its Falsities and Impositions, William Scales
Books from 1994
The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Maps, and Drawings, 1521-1860, Samuel J. Hough and Penelope R. O. Hough