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.

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Books from 2012

John Humphrey Noyes on Sexual Relations in the Oneida Community: Four Essential Texts, John Humphrey Noyes and Anthony Wonderly

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The Richmond Family and the Shakers, Stephen J. Paterwic

Submissions from 2011

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Free Press of the House of Israel: The First Publication of Benjamin Purnell

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Pilgrims and Martyrs: The Engraved Title Page of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror, Jeff Bach

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Peter Ayers, Defender of the Faith, Galen Beale

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The Harvard Shaker Cemetery, Roben Campbell

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The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers—Part Two: “Voyages of the Shaker Ship and Other Adventures, both Legal and Social”, Christian Goodwillie

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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

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How the Harmonists Suffered Disharmony: Schism in Communal Utopias, Donald E. Pitzer

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The Tribulations of the White Water Shakers: The Child Molestation Trial of 1840, Thomas Sakmyster

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The Story of Brother Ricardo’s Song, Darryl Charles Thompson

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Making the Bible Argument: John H. Noyes’ Mission Statement for the Oneida Community, Anthony Wonderley

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“Freedom of the Press is Guaranteed Only to Those Who Own the Presses”, Henry M. Yaple

Submissions from 2010

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A Statement Concerning the Mob at Enfield

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The Shakers of Canterbury: Their Agriculture and Their Machinery, Elizabeth Gleason Bervy

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The Mob at Enfield: Introduction, Elizabeth De Wolfe

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Black Shaker Minstrels and the Comic Performance of Shaker Worship, Robert P. Emlen

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Strangers Along the Trail: Peoria’s Shaker Apostates Enter the World, Patricia L. Goitein

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The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers—Part One: “From a Spirit of Detraction and Slander”, Christian Goodwillie

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“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

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Benn Pitman's "Visit to the Shaker Settlement—Whitewater Village, O.": Introduction, David D. Newell

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The History of the Shaker Gathering Order, Stephen J. Paterwic

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Visit to the Shaker Settlement— Whitewater Village, O., Benn Pitman

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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

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William Adee Whitehead’s Visit to the Shakers: Introduction, Elizabeth De Wolfe and Scott De Wolfe

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Heaven In A Hollow Earth: The Shaker-Koreshan Connection, Christian Goodwillie

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Letter from Richard McNemar to Laurence Roelosson: Introduction, Christian Goodwillie

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Daughter of the Shakers: The Story of Eleanor Brooks Fairs, Johanne Grewell

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Conflict and Tribulation on the Frontier: The West Union Shakers and Their Retreat, Carol Medlicott

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Remembering Gus Kermes, Sandra A. Soule

Robert White Jr., Sandra A. Soule

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Birth, Life, and Death of Olive Branch, 1896-1924, Vernon Squire

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Celebrating and Sacralizing Violence: Testimonies Concerning Ann Lee and the Early Shakers, Stephen J. Stein

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“Rather Than Ever Milk Again”: Shaker Sisters’ Refusal to Milk at Mount Lebanon and Watervliet — 1873-1877, Lauren A. Stiles

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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

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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

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Watervliet Shakers through the Eyes of Oneida Perfectionists, 1863-1875, Anthony Wonderley

Submissions from 2008

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A Dialogue Between George the Third of Great-Britain and his Ministers

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Putting Sodus Shaker Village On The Map, Walter A. Brumm

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Harmonisches Gesangbuch 1827: The Hymnal of a Religious Community in Early Nineteenth-Century America, Hedwig T. Durnbaugh

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“Late Recruits for Britain”: Anti-Shaker Propaganda During the American Revolution, David D. Newell

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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

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New Lebanon’s Gifts to the Western New York Shakers, Stephen J. Paterwic

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“The Mythical Structure is Created”: Planning and Construction of the Center Family Dwelling House, Mount Lebanon, 1856-1868, Lauren A. Stiles

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From the Russells to the Pilots: The Beginning and End of North Union, Cathie Winans

Submissions from 2007

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Michigan’s Siberia: The House of David on High Island, Clare E. Adkin Jr.

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Letters, Sally Dean and Phineas Fletcher

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The Road From Harmony, Eileen Aiken English

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A Sampling of Rare Shaker Broadsides at Hamilton College Library, Christian Goodwillie

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The Shaker Leaf Song: Solving a Perplexing Puzzle, Roger L. Hall

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Church of Christ unto a People in Kentucky & the Adjacent States, David Meacham, Amos Hammond, and Ebenezer Cooly

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The Copley-Lyman Shaker Family of Enfield, Connecticut: An Annotated Genealogy, M. Stephen Miller

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Mother Lucy’s Last Visit to Watervliet: Introduction, David D. Newell

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Church of Christ unto a People in Kentucky & the Adjacent States: Introduction, Ralph Stenstrom

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Sally Dean and Her Letter to “Respected Friend Phineas”: Introduction, Glendyne Wergland

Visiting the Shakers, 1778-1849, Glendyne R. Wergland

Submissions from 2006

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William Scales' 1789 "Mystery of the People Called Shakers": Introduction, David D. Newell

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The Mystery of the People Called Shakers, Laid Open, and Their Ministration Exploded, for Its Falsities and Impositions, William Scales

Books from 1994

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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