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Oscar C. McColloch, The Tribe of Ishmael (1888)

March 30, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Fans of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie or Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline’s Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture will be familiar with the story of the Tribe of Ben Ishmael, a […]

What Mutualism Was – I: Prehistories

March 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third] Contr’un Revisited: [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] [This post seems to have been lost at some point, but there was a draft preserved in my Blogger account.] This is the first of a series of explorations of […]

Josiah Warren, The First American Anarchist

March 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Bailie’s Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist remains the best single source we have on Warren’s career, but it’s a bit hard to get your hands on. I was fortunate enough to pick up […]

How I Spent My Spring Vacation

March 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I celebrated a birthday, had my main email account compromised (so if you’ve tried to contact me, I’m not ignoring you, but it may be another day or so before I see you mail), reread […]

The Founding Fathers

February 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Some days I’m content to treat the “founding fathers” as Real American Heroes, guys who did a pretty amazing job of forging a country out of the colonies, despite active opposition from England and internal […]

The Declaration as an Argument

February 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

So, what does the Declaration of Independence do? What kind of writing is it, and what does it seek to accomplish? The documents begins: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for […]

Colonial America: The First Half of our History

February 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s surprising when you notice that the colonial period is nearly one half of American history, over 150 years. If you start the history of the national period after the ratification of the Constitution, rather […]

Great Ideas: Working Definitions and Clarifications

February 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s obvious, once the question is asked, that people value “great ideas” for a variety of reasons. But perhaps a general definition may still be possible. Great Ideas are those which will not let us […]

Land-Banks as a substitute for Alchemy?!

February 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Carl Wennerlind has a great article online, tracing connections between the alchemical tradition and the rise of credit-money, including land-banking. “Credit-Money as the Philosopher’s Stone: Alchemy and the Coinage Problem in Seventeenth-Century England” starts with […]

Susan Dimock and Bessie Greene

February 13, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ednah Dow Cheney’s Memoir of Susan Dimock : resident physician of the New England Hospital for Women and Children is now online. There’s some very nice material here, including accounts of the funeral for the […]