John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886) was the founder of the Oneida Community, one of the notable experimental societies of his century. John Humphrey Noyes, born on Sept. 3, 1811, in Brattleboro, Vt., was raised in an individualistic family by a religious...
NOYES, JOHN HUMPHREY (1811–1886), American religious reformer and founder of the Oneida Community. Born to a prominent family in Brattleboro, Vermont, John Humphrey Noyes graduated from Dartmouth College and attended Andover and Yale theological...
Americans in the mid nineteenth century had a profound sense of religious freedom. According to the First Amendment to the Constitution, Congress could make "no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." At...
Compiled by George Wallingford Noyes, edited and with an introduction by Lawrence Foster. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. lviii, + 371 pp. $39.95 cloth. Lawrence Foster, known for his comparative studies of the Shakers, Oneida Community, and the Latter-day Saints, presents a...
Lawrence Foster, ed. Free Love in Utopia. John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2001. lvi +370 pp. $39.95 The Oneida Community has received more attention than any other American commune, perhaps because its combination...
This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what...
This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what...
