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Edward Kellogg in “The Word”

November 4, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I was printing out a couple of issues of Ezra Heywood’s The Word, and ran across a listing of books available from the Heywoods’ Co-Operative Publishing Co. in 1873. William B. Greene’s then-newly-published The Blazing […]

“A Transcendentalist in Political Economy”

October 27, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Reading through William B. Greene’s various essays on New England Transcendentalism, perhaps the most puzzling question is: “Why does he care? What’s the Big Deal?” Greene clearly looked up to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and just […]

Edward Kellogg, 1790-1858

October 26, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

Edward Kellogg’s Labor and Other Capital (1849) was one of the major sources, along with the works of Proudhon and William Beck’s Money and Banking (1839), from which William Batchelder Greene drew portions of his […]

Navigating the new library

October 22, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been pretty quiet here for awhile, mostly because the William B. Greene research has taken on a life of its own, not just because A Special Answer to a Special Prayer threatens to be […]

1842: William B. Greene at 22 (“First Principles”)

October 5, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] William Batchelder Greene’s first major work was an essay titled “First Principles,” which appeared in the transcendentalist periodical The Dial, in January 1842. Greene was, at […]

1853: William B. Greene at 34

October 4, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1853, William B. Greene had resigned from his position as pastor of a West Brookfield church, but had not yet settled himself in Paris, where he would stay until his return in 1861, at […]

Homeland Security: now we see what we’re paying for

September 15, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Perhaps the hardest thing to take about the botched federal response to Katrina is that it was largely perpetrated by the Department of Homeland Security. Since 9/11, we’ve been encouraged to believe that the […]

“Taking Responsibility”

September 15, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

These days, even Dubya may be guilty of a little strategic Bush-bashing, what with this strange admission of “responsibility” for delays in the Federal response to Katrina. And it is a strange admission: “And to […]

A New Two-Front War?

September 4, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] Now that Hurricane Katrina has probably killed thousands of Americans and threatened our oil supply, I suppose that we can expect the Bush administration to formally declare the War on Mother Nature. This unprecedented […]

Finding, and losing, Bessie Greene

September 2, 2005 Shawn P. Wilbur

I spent my research time yesterday reading a regimental history of the 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery, and was pleased to be able to confirm that the wife and daughter of William B. Greene had visited […]

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