This work chronicles intentional communities in the 20th century. The chronological account first studies the older groups that were operating until 1900, it then explores the impact of the early 19th-century art colonies, before discussing decade-by-decade the new groups formed up to 1960.

Timothy Miller is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of American Communes, 1860-1960: Bibliography; The Hippies and American Values; and editor of When Prophets Die: The Postcharismatic Fate of New Religious Movements and Americas Alternative Religions.