Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Utopian Communities" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Utopia, Utopian community, Utopian society, free love society, Shakers, Brook Farm
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Impressions of Travel"
New York Daily Tribune (New York, NY), February 19, 1845, Image 1, col. 1.
"Labor for Wages"
The Voice of Freedom (Montpelier, VT), May 7, 1846, Page 182, Image 2, col. 3-4.
"A New Free-Love Establishment on an Island in Lake Champlain"
The Saline County Journal (Salina, KS), September 17, 1874, Image 4, col. 2.
"Valcour"
Vermont Farmer (Newport, VT), January 1, 1875, Image 2, col. 2.
"Oneida Community"
The New York Herald (New York, NY), February 15, 1879, Page 3, Image 3, col. 1-4.
"BCC Plan"
Industrial Freedom (Edison, WA), April 22, 1899, image 2, col. 2-3.
"A Brook Farm Survivor"
Kansas City Journal (Kansas City, MO), April 30, 1899, Page 18, Image 18, col. 1-2.
"Why they failed. The foundation of a modern utopia"
Daily Inter Mountain (Butte, MT), January 6, 1900, Page 11, Image 11, col 1.
"The City of Shalam"
The Dupuyer Acantha (Dupuyer, MT), October 18, 1900, Image 7, col. 2-3.
"Colony is Utopian"
Cameron County Press (Emporium, PA), December 15, 1910, Image 21, col. 3.
"Oddities of Shakers"
Fort Mill Times (Fort Mill, SC), June 15, 1922, Image 1, col. 1.

Utopian Communities (1841-1922): Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America