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From the Libertarian Library – the first wave

April 20, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

120 posts since I launched From the Libertarian Library on March 23! Not bad for a month’s work. Here’s an index of what’s there so far: Welcome to the Libertarian Library John Adams, Social Reform, […]

J. K. Ingalls, Woman’s Industrial Subjection

April 17, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Joshua King Ingalls was one of the most tireless of the radical writers of the second half of the 19th century, and one of those most interested in the “social problem” in all its aspects. […]

Samuel Leavitt, Anti-Malthus I (1880)

March 22, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the first of two parts, originally published in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, Aug 1880. Vol. 71, Iss. 2, p. 72-76. The author, Samuel Leavitt, was an associate of Joshua King […]

Mini-Canon Assignment: How-To posts

March 18, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here’s an archive of the “how-to” posts for the Mini-Canon assignment, from a previous semester:] We want to keep focused on the realm of “great ideas,” even while we research stuff that more specifically interesting […]

possible scanning breakthough

March 16, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

This project is always slowed down by my desire to make much of the pertinent original material available as I comment on it. Working from microfiche originals makes this process somewhat cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming. […]

Another reminiscence of Joshua King Ingalls

March 5, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Woman’s Tribune, XI, 23 (May 12, 1894), 91. GLENORA, N. Y.—My dear Mrs. Colby: The recent convention in this State over the right of woman to vote for School Commissioners, revives occurrences of which I […]

J. K. Ingalls, Photography (1850)

March 3, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

PHOTOGRAPHYJoshua King Ingalls [American People’s Journal of Science, Literature, and Art, January 1850, p. 42.] THE employment of light as an agent in copying, or drawing, was suggested as early as the commencement of the […]

Guess WTO’s Coming to Dinner

February 10, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

An earlier (2000) lo-fi video project, put together in the midst of a redevelopment project in the downtown where my now-defunct bookstore was located. Pre-Podcast Era commentary and construction-zone ambience. Heliograph2000 – Guess WTO’s Coming […]

Milo Hastings entry at Wikipedia

January 23, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Congratulations are in order to the very busy editor who has been working on the Milo Hastings article on Wikipedia. I did a little work on it back in December, shortly after my post on […]

Another nice collection of primary documents

January 16, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

American Historical Documents 1000-1904, at Google Books. From the discovery of “Vinland” to the Panama Canal treaty.