Here are some links to a small part of Andrew McFarland Davis’ work on the colonial land banks. The first essay, on a Connecticut experiment of 1732, is interesting. The last essay provides a context […]
While this essay was published in 1836, while William B. Greene was at West Point, similarities between it and the the section on “The Usury Laws” in Greene’s Equality (1849) make it worth at least […]
Here’s a guest post from my peer facilitator and teaching assistant, Jennie Ahlborn, introducing William Manning’s Key of Libberty, along with citations (and links, for some folks, to Manning’s two key texts.) William Manning’s The […]
From Kossuth in New England : a full account of the Hungarian governor’s visit to Massachusetts with his speeches, and the addresses that were made to him, carefully revised and corrected, with an appendix (1852). […]
It’s been awhile since this has been up in the Labyrinth. Yesterday, when I was discussing Tom Paine with my Great Ideas students, I passed around a couple of 19th century editions of Paine’s work: […]
Hehe. Thanks to some help from the very kind folks at the West Brookfield Historical Commission, it looks like we may have to revise one of the generally accepted “facts” about William B. Greene’s career. […]
I’ve been able to verify that William B. Greene’s first published work, the poem “Song of Espousal,” did in fact appear in the Moss Rose holiday gift annual for 1847. The annual is apparently a […]
An important episode in the story of the New England land banks is The Fund at Boston, in New England, apparently the earliest practical land bank experiment in the colonies. Much of what we know […]
One sheet survives of this pamphlet, attributed to Rev. John Woodbridge. It describes an early mutual bank scheme known as The Fund at Boston in N. E. It is quite likely that this sheet was […]
William B. GreeneAn observation, based on the collations I’ve been doing of Greene’s borrowings from sources such as William Beck and Edward Kellogg: The mutual bank writings of 1849 and 1850 are full of Greene’s […]
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