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When I posted William B. Greene’s response to Jesse H. Jones in The Word, I promised some material on Jones himself. Jones is a figure of interest in our developing genealogy of mutualisms. Although he […]

The Lancet is publishing a new study, which suggests that excess mortality in Iraq resulting from the US invasion and subsequent conflicts tops 650,000. The number is based on a survey. Iraq Body Count is […]

There is a partial archive of Samuel Milton Jones’ Letters of Love and Labor at the Ohio Memory site. The site is extensive, and includes a large number of radical and civil rights items. Another […]

“T)EAR SIR—Tn reply to the queries eoutaiiied tn YOur note of the 26th nIt..” at The Very Idea!

Some time ago, I noted the presence of some work by Charles V. Kraitsir in the Google Books archive. Here is a more complete bibliography and listing of online texts. Kraitsir was one of those […]

[This is a very nice account of how one of the children of the Valley Forge Owenite community eventually joined the Shakers. It’s one of a number of documents relating to the “high tide” of […]

I’m updating my bibliographies for William B. Greene. The last time I did a major update, there were lots of question marks. Now, there are fewer questions about the major, book- and article-length works, but […]

Ah, the joys of the transitional library. Google Books, which obviously searches its “full texts” using raw OCR scans, actually returns 37 books with the phrase “T)EAR SIR.” (When you do the search, it will […]

I’m in the midst of gathering together the last year’s worth of research, for a much-needed overhaul of the Libertarian Labyrinth site. I have high hopes that the site can be a really useful resource […]

Since class members will be wrapping up their work for the semester with a response to Kevin Carson’s “A Strategic Green-Libertarian Alliance,” we need to spend a little time dealing with the two keywords: libertarian […]