The Northampton Community

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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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Bedford/St.Martin's

Established in 1981, Bedford/St. Martin’s is the largest college publisher of textbooks for English composition courses. They publish best-selling textbooks like A Writer’s Reference, The St. Martin’s Guide to College Writing, and Patterns for College Writing.

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.