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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 […]

Deacon Van Winkle’s Dream (Looking Backward)

December 12, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m in the midst of a Sequels of Looking Backward marathon, working my way through as many of the early responses to Edward Bellamy’s novel as I can get my hands on. In the process […]

Parrington and more at UVa

December 12, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The American Studies program at University of Virginia has a number of nice resources on their website, including all three volumes of Vernon L. Parrington’s Main Currents in American Thought: Vol. I – The Colonial […]

Florence Finch Kelly on Co-Operative Apartment Buildings (1908)

December 8, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Florence Finch Kelly was an extremely prolific journalist, who, as the introduction to this piece remarked, had “written much on social questions.” She worked as a book reviewer for the New York Times, contributed to […]

A Calvin Blanchard Miscellany

December 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Bits and pieces, in preparation for a web-page update: Biographical sketch of Calvin Blanchard’s brother, Rufus Blanchard (1821-1904) [An entertaining snippet] Should Blanchard† publish First Principles—and […]

The Libertarian Labyrinth

Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

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

A Journalist’s Confession (Looking Backward)

Deacon Van Winkle’s Dream (Looking Backward)

Parrington and more at UVa

Florence Finch Kelly on Co-Operative Apartment Buildings (1908)

A Calvin Blanchard Miscellany

Stephen Pearl Andrews, 1877 “Address”

As 2006 draws to a close

Francis Tandy on strikes, boycotts and invasion

Lewis Masquerier, amateur astrophysicist?