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New Project: Travelling in Liberty

December 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

With the 2006 projects in the wrap-up phase, it’s time to get the next set rolling. Along with the new Libertatia Lab Reports, I’ve launched Travelling in Liberty, a blog to document my attempt to […]

Access to “Liberty”

December 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Considering the importance of Liberty, both as the primary journal of the individualist anarchist tradition and as an important component of the larger debates about social issues in its time, it is a bit surprising […]

Travelling through “Liberty”

December 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Between 1891 and 1908, Benjamin R. Tucker’s published 403 issues of Liberty, almost certainly the most important individualist anarchist publication in English, and probably in any language. Tucker was a, perhaps the, key player in […]

Google Books “Found Art”

December 18, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

While using Google Books, I’ve been collecting particularly nice examples of either 1) pages scanned so badly that they become interesting as “found art” in their own right, or 2) images of non-book items, including […]

The new Libertatia Lab Reports

December 18, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m guessing very few people will even notice, but my old “general” blog, Libertatia Lab Reports, has made its final journey to the bit-bucket. I used it very little, and not particularly effectively. If you […]

Google Books “Found Art”

December 18, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

While using Google Books, I’ve been collecting particularly nice examples of either 1) pages scanned so badly that they become interesting as “found art” in their own right, or 2) images of non-book items, including […]

J. K. Ingalls’ patents

December 16, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The patent search at Google is easier to navigate than the equivalent at the U.S. Patent Office, although the images at the latter are a bit better. Both sites are of potential interest, as a […]

“A Lance for Anarchy,” Voltairine de Cleyre

December 16, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Voltairine de Cleyre was involved in the debates in The Open Court in the 1890s, and also published a number of poems in that journal. “A Lance for Anarchy,” which appeared in the issue of […]

Farming in the Year 2000, A. D. (Looking Backward)

December 15, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s yet another short sequel to Bellamy’s novel, by Edward Berwick. It appeared in the June 1890 issue of the Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, to which Berwick submitted a number or articles. His […]

A Journalist’s Confession (Looking Backward)

December 12, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

In this exchange from The Open Court (April 10 and May 1, 1890) Dyer D. Lum and Rabbi Solomon Schindler square off over Edward Bellamy’s ideas in a set of sequels to Looking Backward. Schindler […]