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Another side of Eliphalet Kimball
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 […]
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Eliphalet Kimball in 1873
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 […]
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The return of “From the Libertarian Library”
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 […]
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Steven T. Byington, “On Interference with the Environment”
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 […]
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Eliphalet Kimball for President! in 1852
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 […]
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Archive upgrades, IV
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 […]
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Benjamin R. Tucker in Printers’ Ink, 1892
Here’s another letter from Benjamin R. Tucker relating to the publishing trade, which refers to his experiences publishing the Weekly Bulletin of Newspaper and Periodical Literature, one of three non-political papers he published—the others were […]
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E. Armand, “Little Manual of the Individualist Anarchist” (1911)
[ezcol_2third] My translation of E. Armand’s “Mini-Manual” was a fairly early effort, and I’ve been meaning to get a revised translation posted for some time now. I originally tackled the sections that had not been […]
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The Gilded Edge of Hell – a tale by Voltairine de Cleyre
THE GILDED EDGE OF HELL Mr. Editor:–The broad roll of the Delaware flashed back a white water-glisten at the full moon. Fifteen or twenty vessels spread their white wings to the slow breeze, or sent […]
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Archive upgrades, III
The Libertarian Labyrinth clean-up advances, step by step: I’ve made it through the “A”s in a roughly linear fashion—with lots of side trips to deal with all the old problems, new listings and such that […]