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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 […]

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 […]