A comprehensive illustrated anthology of material about and by the American Shakers.

Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society

Among America's more interesting new religious movements, the Shakers and the Mormons came to be thought of as separate and distinct from mainstream Protestanti

Presents a collection of biographies of influential persons who were deaf.