Shaker Studies

Study groups and Seminars

• • Shaker Seminar
    • • Pages about Shaker Seminar
    • About Shaker Seminar
    • Shaker Seminar history
      • Seminars by year
      • Yearly Seminar and Lectures
      • Seminar authors
      • Shaker Seminar page at Hancock web site

• • Enfield Spring Forum
    • Forum at Enfield Shaker Village
      • Pages about Enfield Shaker Forum

• • Study Groups
  • Boston Area Shaker Study Group Trips and Joining
  • Friends of the Shakers Local group in Sabbathday Lake, Maine
  • WSSG: Western Shaker Study group is defunct These are pages we rescued from Archive.org

• • Hamilton College Shaker Studies Mailing list (request information from webmaster at shakertown.net)

Books and others

• • Bibliography of Shaker Books, in Shakerpedia collection
  • Shaker Books, on google books, or other online full text

Databases for Shaker Theses/Dissertations and Shaker Exhibits

Jerry Brewington <brewgator@hotmail.com> collected these two databases:

List of Shaker Dissertations (updated Jan 23, 2019)

List of Shaker Exhibits (updated Jan 23, 2019)

The exhibits database column that says 'Cat.' is to indicate whether there was a published catalogue or not. If there is an asterisk beside it, that means I have it. If there is a 'yes' with no asterisk and you have a catalogue that you are willing to donate or sell, please let me know. I hope the links in the Theses database work. They did for me.

Thanks to those who also agreed to share their information with me, whether it be a catalogue or a photo (thanks again to Rich Spence for digging up the Watervliet, Ohio meeting house photo - what a find!)

Recent Articles about the Shakers

• The 'Shaking Quakers' of Franklin County, MA From Greenfield Recorder by Richie Davis (Nov. 1, 2008)

• American Ancestors, Fall 2018
  • p35. Shakers in by Family by Peter H Van Demark and
  • p39 Resources for Researching your Eastern Shaker Ancestors by Stephen Paterwic

Modern Books by Friends of Shakers

• Modern Shaker Scholars

• The A to Z of the Shakers By Stephen J. Paterwic
  • Publisher, Scarecrow Press
  • Preview on Google Books
  • Buy it on amazon
  • Search on ShakerPedia

• From Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands: A Survey of the Industries By M. Stephen Miller
  • on google books
  • Other books by M. Stephen Miller

• Richard W. Couper Press, Shaker Series, Hamilton College

Older books, current era

• SHAKER COMMUNITIES, SHAKER LIVES by Priscilla J. Brewer
  • On google books