Shaker Reading List
You will find that most of the titles on this Shaker reading list are available in larger public libraries, on Amazon, and (in one important case) online. We look forward to having you and your students visit Enfield Shaker Museum to learn firsthand about the Shakers who lived, worked, and worshiped at this beautiful place.
For Teachers
General Studies
- Andrews, Edward Deming. The People Called Shakers. New York: Dover Publications, 1963.
- Melcher, Marguerite F. The Shaker Adventure. Old Chatham, NY: Shaker Museum, 1986.
- Morse, Flo. The Shakers and the World’s People. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1987.
- Stein, Stephen J. The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992.
- Wergland, Glendyne. One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
- Wergland, Glendyne. Sisters in the Faith: Shaker Women and Equality of the Sexes. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.Â
- Wertkin, Gerald. The Four Seasons of Shaker Life: An Intimate Portrait of the Community at Sabbathday Lake. New York:Fireside Publishing, 1986.Â
Works on Enfield, NH Shaker Village
- Elkins, Hervey. Fifteen Years in the Senior Order of the Shakers. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 1853.
- Cumings, Henry. The Collected Writings of Henry Cumings. Edited by Mary Ann Haagen. Clinton, NY: Richard W. Couper Press, 2012.
For Students
- Carr, Frances A. Growing Up Shaker. New Gloucester, ME: United Society of Shakers, 1995.
- Gaeddert, Louann. Hope. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
- Lowry, Lois. Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2011. Â
- Ray, Mary Lyn. Angel Baskets: A Little Story About the Shakers. Martha Wetherbee Books, 1988.
- Ray, Mary Lyn. Shaker Boy. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
- Thorne-Thomson, Kathleen. Shaker Children: True Stories and Crafts. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1996.
