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Fogarty, Robert Stephen was born on August 30, 1938 in Brooklyn. Son of Michael Joseph and Marguerita (Carmody) Fogarty.
(From the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries America h...)
From the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries America has been both a haven for utopian dreamers and a fertile ground for experiments in community. Closely examining the decades from the Civil War to World War I, Robert S. Fogarty provides the first comprehensive study of a neglected chapter in the history of American utopian and communal experiments. Countering the view that utopianism declined dramatically after the 1840s , Fogarty uncovers a wealth of utopian experiments across the United States from 1860 to 1914. He examines some 125 communities and their leaders, ranging from the secular and entreprenurial to the charismatic and mystical. These engrossing tales of communes gain both authority and vitality from his exhaustive research in primary sources, including newspapers, journals, and letters and from the inclusion of historic photographs of colonists and prophets. Fogarty's arguments reflect recurrent cultural forces in American history, as he defines new territory in the history of utopian and communal movements. This trenchant work, accompanied by its new foreword, offers a fresh perspective on the persistent theme of defining community and self.
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Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and ’30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group, a scandal that gave newspapers during the first years after World War I some added spice. Still, others may know it as a religious communal society founded in 1903, which has a few adherents today. What is this strange group and how can these diverse images be reconciled? In the first in-depth study of the House of David, originally published in 1981, Robert S. Fogarty places the sect in the Anglo-Israelite millennial tradition that goes back to seventeenth-century England, which produced prophets like the mystic Joanna Southcott and from which arose sects in England, Australia, and the United States. Their reading of the Book of Revelation promised the saving of a “righteous remnant” of humanity who would gather in one place to await the millennium. Evangelist Benjamin Purnell became the seventh prophet in the line of this tradition and, with his bigamous wife, Mary, established a community for its followers in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The House of David was a celibate communal society controlled by the Purnells, and it attracted members who exchanged their worldly goods for the security of salvation. At its height, the community had more than 700 members and prospered by running farms, a canning company, and an amusement park and hosting popular touring bands and the traveling baseball teams. But there were defectors, and from them emerged rumors of oppressive conditions, sexual misconduct on the part of the prophet himself, hastily arranged group marriages, and financial wrongdoing that led to a series of civil suits. The allegations drove Purnell into hiding, and the State of Michigan launched an elaborate trial against the colony. The Righteous Remnant is more than the story of the rise and fall of a religious community. By examining its religious roots, the staunch testimony of its members in the face of demonstrated charges, and the social relations within the colony itself, we can begin to understand the attraction that such “social contracts” can exert. The House of David is now a remnant itself, but other religious groups continue to grow and bind members to them in the same ways.
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(Examining the decades from the Civil War to World War I, ...)
Examining the decades from the Civil War to World War I, this text explores a neglected chapter in the history of American utopian and communal experiments. Countering the view that utopianism declined dramatically after the 1840s, it studies utopian experiments across the USA from 1860 to 1914.
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Fogarty, Robert Stephen was born on August 30, 1938 in Brooklyn. Son of Michael Joseph and Marguerita (Carmody) Fogarty.
Bachelor of Science, Fordham University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, University Denver, 1968.
Instructor Michigan State University, 1963-1967. Assistant professor Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1968-1973, chairman humanities area, 1973-1974, 78-79, associate professor, 1974-1980, professor history, since 1980, John Dewey professor emeritus. Professor Advanced International Studies, Center for Chinese-American Johns Hopkins University, 1986-1987.
Editor Antioch Review, since 1977. Director Associated Colleges Midwest/Great Lakes College Association, Program in Humanities, Newberry Library, 1978-1979. Consultant National Endowment for Arts, 1975-1981, University Waterloo, Canada, 1981.
Visiting fellow New York University Institute for Humanities, 1992—1993. Darwin lecturer human biology Galton Institute, London, 1994. Lecturer University Leece, 2006, University Calabria, 2006, University Southern Mississippi, 2006, University Texas Dallas, 2010, N.E.H. Hayes Library., 2009—2010.
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(From the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries America h...)
(Many Americans associate the House of David with its bear...)
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Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/American Center, Organization American Historians, National History Communal Sites Association (executive committee 1975—2002), American Studies Association (bibliography committee since 1981).
Married Geraldine Wolpman, December 30, 1961 (divorced April 1984). Children: David, Suzanne.