shakers

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The Shakers, with their signature spare style, have had an outsize impact on material culture, considering their numbers—a peak estimated at 6,000 members in the mid-19th century—and segregation from the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The Shakers never claimed to have invented objects like these.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

At its peak, there were over 6,000 Shakers, joining Ann in rebuking the gruesome, incalculable evils of war and preaching moral generosity.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

If the Shakers have a lasting cultural legacy, it is their music — most famously “Simple Gifts,” the uplifting spiritual Aaron Copland immortalized in his ballet “Appalachian Spring.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

“There aren’t any Shakers in Shaker Heights,” he said.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng