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A low place to haunt, should you be so inclined…

November 8, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Rand, McNally & Co.’s Handy Guide to Chicago and World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) contains the following entry among its sightseeing options: Socialists and Anarchists.—These gentry, who received such a salutary lesson in the execution of […]

Property and the Essence of Mutualism

November 5, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] “My principle, which will appear astonishing to you, citizens, my principle is yours; it is property itself.”—P.-J. Proudhon In my writings on mutualist property theory, I have been attempting to supplement a somewhat strange […]

Was Josiah Warren a spiritualist?

November 2, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

We know that there were plenty of spiritualists in Josiah Warren’s circle—including his wife, Stephen Pearl Andrews and his wife Esther, Ezra and Angela Heywood, and Mary and Thomas Nichols—we have the claim of Clarence […]

Archive upgrades, V

November 1, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

There’s no escaping the fact that some of what is necessary in this process of turning my online filing cabinet into a working archive is pretty slow going, and pretty dull stuff. That’s undoubtedly apparent […]

Another side of Eliphalet Kimball

November 1, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

It looks to me like Eliphalet Kimball remained as obscure a figure to most of his peers as he is to us today—right up until the end of his life. And then, curiously, he developed […]

Eliphalet Kimball in 1873

October 31, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s a bit of follow-up on the Eliphalet Kimball story I recently posted. More searching has not turned up any more direct account of Kimball’s 1852 presidential platform, but while filling some holes in my […]

The return of “From the Libertarian Library”

October 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

As a lot of my day-to-day focus shifts back to the digital archiving projects, it makes sense to put some old tools back into use. By the beginning of the new year, I should have […]

Steven T. Byington, “On Interference with the Environment”

October 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

ON INTERFERENCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT. By STEVEN T. BYINGTON. I.—THE PRESUPPOSITIONS I START FROM. I WANT to start a discussion which may be of some length, especially if I get replies from those who disagree […]

Eliphalet Kimball for President! in 1852

October 30, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Eliphalet Kimball remains one of my favorite figures in the American anarchist tradition, in part because he remains so unknown, popping up here and there in the 19th century radical press to make the most […]

Archive upgrades, IV

October 29, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

The week was full of the right kinds of interruptions: A couple of research requests I had out bore fruit, and gave me plenty of productive distractions from the ongoing archive clean-up. Barry Pateman, of […]