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The Northampton Community
Social Reform and Utopia in the 1840sFirst Edition| ©2021 Christopher Clark
This document collection offers insights into the aspirations, life, and practical aspects of an American utopian community of the 1840s. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: What does the Northampton Community’s exampl...
This document collection offers insights into the aspirations, life, and practical aspects of an American utopian community of the 1840s. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: What does the Northampton Community’s example reveal about the goals and experiences of American utopian communities in the 1840s?
Students are guided in their analyses of the documents by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions and suggestions for further research. Through their work with these sources, they will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in an historically-based context, an enhanced ability to read, interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources, and practice explaining historical change over time.
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This document collection offers insights into the aspirations, life, and practical aspects of an American utopian community of the 1840s. Students will engage with a wide range of primary sources, constructing an argument based on the central question: What does the Northampton Community’s example reveal about the goals and experiences of American utopian communities in the 1840s?
Students are guided in their analyses of the documents by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions and suggestions for further research. Through their work with these sources, they will gain a deeper awareness of the diversity of the American experience, a more complete understanding of the present in an historically-based context, an enhanced ability to read, interpret, assess, and contextualize primary sources, and practice explaining historical change over time.
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Table of Contents
Central Question
Learning Objective
Historical Background
Timeline
PRIMARY SOURCES
Northampton Association of Education and Industry, Constitution and By-Laws, April 1842
James A. Stetson to Dolly W. Stetson, February 1843
A Visitor Describes the Northampton Community, October 1843
An Opposing View of the Northampton Community, October 1843
Dolly W. Stetson and Almira Stetson to James A. Stetson, April 1844
Samuel L. Hill’s Recollections of the Northampton Association, 1867
Frederick Douglass, "What I Found at the Northampton Association," c. 1890s
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In 1981, Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg founded an imprint of St. Martin's Press called Bedford Books and started work on The Bedford Reader. Today, Bedford/St. Martin's is publishing across the disciplines of English, History, Communication, Music, and College Success. Books like A Writer's Reference, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, and A Speaker's Guidebook work because they grow from where disciplines are, where they're going, and what they need.

Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians for The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 (1990). His other publications include The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association (1995) and Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War (2006), together with articles on rural history and the social roots of American economic development. He has also been the corecipient of the Cadbury Schweppes Prize for innovative teaching in the humanities.

The Northampton Community
First Edition| 2021
Christopher Clark
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