Utopian Communities
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Websites
American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University
List of American utopian communities
Communal Studies Association
List of links to historical and contemporary intentional communities
Intentional Communities
Contemporary intentional communities
Newspapers
Newsbank
Full-text articles from major metropolitan newspapers, international papers, and smalltown U.S. papers. This service includes both contemporary and historical databases. If you're researching an American community, click on the United States link under Search Shortcuts, then click on the state that your community is in to find and search in the local newspaper.
LexisNexis
Full-text access to hundreds of recent (and even not-so-recent) newspaper and magazine articles. Select from a variety of regional perspectives under “World News,” “U.S. News,” “Wires,” and “Transcripts.” Then, enter your search terms and start searching. Note that you can restrict your search by date range. Some newspapers in Lexis-Nexis go back to the 1800s.
Proquest Historical Newspapers
Scroll to the bottom of the database menu to access these papers:
- Historical New York Times (1851-2003)
- Historical Chicago Tribune (1849-1985)
- Historical Chicago Defender (1905-1975)
- Historical Wall Street Journal (1889-1989)
Databases
Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - present
Identifies articles in scholarly subject areas including religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, women's issues and the general sciences.
JSTOR
Spans many disciplines; not current. Use the Advanced Search to limit to just articles (otherwise many book reviews will seep in). Also, combine search terms to narrow your results.
Project MUSE
Click on the yellow Search tab at the top of the screen. Then click on the grey Advanced Search tab. Limit type to Article and combine search terms to narrow your results.
WilsonSelectPlus 1994 - present
Identifies articles from U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
Subject Headings in the Online Catalog
Utopias
Utopias--(country or state name)
Utopias--United States
Utopias--United States--History
Collective settlements
Collective settlements--(country name)
Collective settlements--United States
Collective settlements--United States--History