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Robert Owen’s Letter to America, 1826

September 25, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’m currently working a lot on the years 1825-27 in America, the high-water mark period for Robert Owen’s influence in the U.S., as well as the period out of which the “Mutualist” of 1826 emerges. […]
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The Distributive Passions: Mutualist fiction blog

September 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
My notebooks are full of leading, if perhaps unanswerable, questions and what-if‘s regarding radical history. At one time, when my focus was on the tag-end of antebellum utopian socialism movements in the postbellum era, I […]
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Readings, Weeks 4 and 5

September 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
God and Government: John Cotton, Letter to Lord Say and Sele (1636). John Winthrop, Essay Against the Power of the Church To Sit in Judgement on the Civil Magistracy (1637) Samuel Willard, The Character of […]
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The Dance of Science and Theology, etc

September 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
We have become accustomed to thinking that science and religion are fundamentally at odds. Debates over school science curricula—to pick one recent example—play out in the mass media as if only two polar positions were […]
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Josiah Warren Project

September 15, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
Crispin Sartwell has launched the Josiah Warren Project, an archive and collection of resources by and about Warren. There are some very rare items already in the archive, including material from the Peaceful Revolutionist and […]
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Notes on “The Index,” etc.

September 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
I’ve now worked through six of the first eight volumes of the free religionist paper, The Index, and it strikes me that we’re going to have to revise somewhat our sense of what the important […]
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A Look at Wikipedia

September 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
Monday morning, as I was getting ready to head out the door to campus, NPR’s Morning Edition aired a story about Wikipedia–mostly positive. The next day, the Wall Street Journal hosted one of their mini-debates, […]
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How To Escape the Coin Monopoly (1895)

September 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
It’s a good week for currency cranks. I was working through some microfiched pamphlets from John Zube’s Libertarian Microfiche Project, trying to work my way through this “roll call” phase of my researches on mutual […]
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Readings: weeks 2 and 3

September 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
I know a few folks are following this who don’t have access to the syllabus, so here are the relevant readings for the last two weeks: A Model of Christian Charity (1630) The Simple Cobbler […]
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The Problem of Tolerance

September 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
At its limits, tolerance can be explosive, deadly. In our readings about religious conflicts in colonial New England, we’ve seen that the stakes of differences of opinion could be raised to the point where those […]

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