https://hankeringforhistory.com/utopian-societies-in-american-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=utopian-societies-in-american-history Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:38:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://hankeringforhistory.com/utopian-societies-in-american-history/#comment-83594 Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:38:14 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=16037#comment-83594 The Joseph Smith you show with his huge family isn’t the founder Joseph Smith, but his nephew Joseph F. Smith, the 6th president of the Utah church.

]]> https://hankeringforhistory.com/utopian-societies-in-american-history/#comment-79449 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:17:31 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=16037#comment-79449 Joseph Smith was shot in Carthage Jail

]]> https://hankeringforhistory.com/utopian-societies-in-american-history/#comment-993 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:12:59 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=16037#comment-993 How interesting. What can you tell us about the aftermath of utopian failure? What do the people these communities attract have in common? One would suspect that their needs are not being met by the current society. But wanting to create an alternative community seems extreme. One example I can think of is during the early Roman Republic, the plebs, not being included, went off to form their own assembly. However, the result was eventual inclusion and not due to a sense of fairness from the patricians and equestrian class, but to external threats. Both Hitler and Stalin had utopian goals, so “hankering” after utopia may in itself be a suspect motivation. It would be interesting to read more of your research.

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