The American Union of Associationists was a national organization of supporters of the economic ideas of Charles Fourier in the United States of America. Organized in 1846 in New York City as a federa
Albert Brisbane, leading figure of American Fourierism in the 1840s, as he appeared at the time of publication of his seminal book, Social Destiny of Man (1840).
Unitarian minister George Ripley (1802-1880), whose Brook Farm was one of the most prominent communal experiments of the 1840s.
Horace Greeley
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Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York and was
American Union of Associationists
…1840 publication of the book Social Destiny of Man by Albert Brisbane (1809–1890) and subsequent publication of a regular column by him in the pages of Horace Greeley's New York Tribune ushered in a period of popular enthusiasm for the ideas of Charles Fourier in the United States. American Fourierists were divided…
Greeley, c. 1860s
Horace Greeley Birthplace in Amherst, New Hampshire
Early depiction of Greeley's first arrival in New York
Photograph of Greeley by Mathew Brady, taken between 1844 and 1860