American Utopia
American Utopia tells the story of the Oneida Community, a radical 19th century free-love experiment in communal living. Building on his own research as well as interviews with top historians, host Dan Greenstone illuminates the fascinating lives of the liberated women and men who overturned society’s conventions about marriage, love, sex, work and childrearing. Subscribe now.
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- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2022
: Madness on Trial: Dan's New Podcast Series
Introducing Dan's new podcast series, Madness on Trial.
Have you seen that John Hinckley Jr. is starting a music career? For real. He's planning a "Redemption Tour." When I first saw this, it kinda b…
Have you seen that John Hinckley Jr. is starting a music career? For real. He's planning a "Redemption Tour." When I first saw this, it kinda b…
00:03:01 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
Communes USA! New Podcast Series
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Hey folks, I'm co-hosting a brand new limited podcast series that, if you like this one, is for you. It's called Communes USA! I co-host…
Hey folks, I'm co-hosting a brand new limited podcast series that, if you like this one, is for you. It's called Communes USA! I co-host…
00:01:04 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Episode 8: Remember Oneida?
How should we remember Oneida? Was John Humphrey Noyes a cult leader, akin to David Koresh? Did the communards of Oneida achieve their goals? Were the people who lived there happy? What can we, today…
00:33:11 |
Wed 04 Apr 2018
Episode 7: Breaking Up
On a summer night In 1879, wearing socks but no shoes, John Humphrey Noyes crept out of the Oneida Community Mansion House, and fled to Canada. He never returned to community he'd created. And soon a…
00:49:44 |
Wed 28 Mar 2018
Episode 6: Sticky Love
At the Oneida Community, everything was meant to be shared, including sex and love. And becoming too attached (or sticky) to another person, especially a lover, was regarded as sinful. But it turns o…
00:37:58 |
Wed 21 Mar 2018
Episode 5: The Assassin and the Prophet
In 1881, an Oneida Community alumnus named Charles J. Guiteau, shot and killed president James A. Garfield. And in many ways, Guiteau’s trial centered on the six year period that Guiteau had spent at…
00:35:59 |
Wed 14 Mar 2018
Episode 4: Building Utopia
In 1848, when word of his free-love practices spread in his hometown of Putney, Vermont, John Humphrey Noyes and a few followers fled to Oneida Creek, in central New York state. There, bucking terrib…
00:39:57 |
Wed 07 Mar 2018
Episode 3: First Comes Marriage
Dan and historian Stephanie Coontz talk vibrators, graham crackers, and female orgasms, as they try to make sense of Oneida's Complex Marriage system, in which 300 adults were (heterosexually) marrie…
00:44:58 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Episode 1: Harriet Worden's Whiplash
In the first episode of American Utopia, we meet Harriet Worden. After Harriet's mother died, Harriet's father, in a decision that would profoundly shape her life, brought his 9 year old daughter to …
00:43:56 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Episode 2: A Perfect Man
In this episode we meet Oneida's founder, John Humphrey Noyes, a painfully shy boy whose life and character are transformed after he attends a wild, four day religious revival. We watch as Noyes beco…
00:36:33 |
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Preview: American Utopia
American Utopia tells the story of the Oneida Community, a radical 19th century free-love experiment in communal living. Building on his own research, as well as interviews with top historians, host …
00:02:48 |
Tue 20 Feb 2018
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