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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 […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews, 1877 “Address”

December 5, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m just about done, for now at least, with combing the page of The Index. There is plenty more work to be done. For instance, someone should collect the material by Henry Appleton and Edwin […]

As 2006 draws to a close

December 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Looking back at my goals for the 2006 scanning project, I can quite happily say that I have exceeded the 3000 original pages which I had hoped to add to the archive—and that I have […]

Francis Tandy on strikes, boycotts and invasion

December 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

STRIKES, TRUSTS, BOYCOTTS, AND BLACK-LISTS. Francis D. Tandy The Arena (February 1900) IN a state of slavery it is impossible for a man to change his occupation. The very existence of such a state of […]

Lewis Masquerier, amateur astrophysicist?

December 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lewis Masquerier is one of my favorite figures among the older generations of American reformers. This early essay, from The American Repertory of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, June, 1841, is really an exemplary piece for […]

Milo Hastings, housing reformer

December 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] In 1920, a book appeared with the title The Joke About Housing. It was a work of housing reform, including some fairly radical elements. Appended to it were a number of appendixes, including “A […]

Greene and the “galvanized yankees,” II

December 4, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

from Thomas L. Livermore, Days and Events (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920). [327] Captain H. G. O. Weymouth, lately a captain in the 19th Massachusetts Volunteers, was sent up by General Butler, […]