The Oneida Community: Free Love and Cult Life in America

Lindsay and Madison discuss the Oneida Community, as well as how to start a sex cult, that eugenics is icky no matter how you try to spin it, and how to build an empire to hide the fact you used to be a socialist commune.

Information pulled from the following sources:

• 2022 BBC video by Maria Badia
• 2021 Blue Ocean Thinking article by Michael Olenick
• 2020 Connecticut History article by Edward T. Howe
• 2019 JSTOR Daily article by Matthew Wills
• 2017 Social Welfare History Project article
• 2016 Collectors Weekly article by Lisa Hix
• 2007 The New York Times article by Beth Quinn Barnard
• Atlas Obscura
• Britannica
• Find a Grave
• NY History article by Randall Hillebrand
• Oneida Community Mansion House
• Syracuse University Library Department of Special Collections
• Wikipedia (1) (2)

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