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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, No. 1 [mutual banking] Peter I. Blacker, Equitable Villages Albert Brisbane, The Mutualist Township, II Albert Brisbane, The Mutualist Township Bolton Hall, Declaration of Children’s Independence Bolton Hall, Emerson the Anarchist Bolton Hall, The Growth of Socialism Bolton Hall, The Land Question and Economic Progress Bolton Hall, The New Charity Bolton Hall, The Taxation of Farmers Bolton Hall, The Tree of Equity [Bolton Hall, et […]

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. Although land reform was his primary interest, he also addressed women’s rights in several of his writings. The four parts of “Woman’s Industrial Subjection” appeared in 1889 in The Woman’s Tribune, an important woman’s newspaper. They contain Ingalls’ attempt at a historical or anthopological account of the origins of women’s subjection to men, and an analysis of how this subjection paralleled the creation of modern […]

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 Ingalls and George Jacob Holyoake. His work appeared in various of the Onieda colony publications, and in The Arena. In his Reminiscences, Joshua King Ingalls wrote: I should apologize perhaps to Mr. Samuel Leavitt, for not mentioning his name before. But he has been met on so many different platforms, I scarce know where to place him, particularly. We were in accord on the land […]

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 to us. The common oppositions help us start pretty high up on the ladder of abstraction: Us / ThemMine / YoursKnown / UnknownHeaven / Earth All of these oppositions involve drawing pretty basic distinctions. If we tried to get much more abstract than this, we would be looking at ideas like “unity” and “difference,” “the one” and “the other,” etc. When we’re talking about our […]

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. Or, it has done so in the past. I’ve just changed my scanning process somewhat, while working with material from The Twentieth Century, and have been able to at least double my scanning speed in many cases. I hope to get a chance, perhaps even yet this evening, to attempt the same process with some issues of Liberty. Think good thoughts…

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 was a personal witness some three score and ten years ago. My mother was left, on the death of my father, with the sole care of six children, the oldest of which was less than 16 years of age. We lived in a secluded school district in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Our district schools were then of a primitive character compared with the present graded State […]

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 present century, by Mr. Wedgewood, and Sir Humphrey Davy. If a piece of paper be dipped into a weak solution of nitrate of silver, and carefully dried, while excluded from the light, it retains its original color; but on exposure, gradually becomes dark, and even black. A paper thus prepared, placed behind a transparent painting, when held up to the light, would copy exactly 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 to Dinner

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 Hastings here. The original editor, who has access to family pictures and other material, has now worked the page up into something very nice. Among the new details: Hastings was the grandson of abolitionist preacher Pardee Butler.

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.