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The Center for Research Libraries at the University of Chicago has a fine online collection of Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848. You’ll find large scans of lots of fascinating ephemera from […]

Anyone interested in libertarian electoral politics, particularly those frustrated with the current direction of the Libertarian Party, should check out The Boston Tea Party. Thomas L. Knapp describes the new party’s raison d’etre thus: “The […]

The newest additions to the Proudhon archive in the Labyrinth are two translations of his essay “The State,” a polemic against Louis Blanc and Pierre Leroux, and a defence of anarchy as the logical outcome […]

My posting of the 1870 Mutual Banking has already brought forth interesting fruit. Adrian Kuzminski, who is interested in Edward Kellogg, sent the following via email. For now, I simply want to clarify what I […]

While I was looking through The Radical Review yesterday (looking for a Francis Abbot contribution that James Martin mentions, but which does not actually seem to exist), I ran across Joshua King Ingalls’ Work and […]

Wm. B. Greene2d. Lieut. 7th U.S. Infy. [1840] Here’s the autograph of William Batchelder Greene during his first period of service in the U.S. Army, during the Second Seminole War. This was an auction find, […]

I’ve been spending more time scanning and proofing than posting lately. The most important result of that is that William Batchelder Greene’s 1870 Mutual Banking, Showing The Radical Deficiencies Of The Existing Circulating Medium, And […]

Here’s an interesting item: a very early use of the term “anarchist,” and one which is rather more sympathetic than most early uses, although it is still, in this instance, a pejorative. I’m inclined to […]

Caroline Dall’s report of Margaret Fuller’s March, 1841 “coversation” on mythology, Margaret and Her Friends, is now available in pdf in the Labyrinth. This set of ten meetings between Fuller, Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, James […]

I’m nearing the finish line in my work archiving Greene’s Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic and Financial Fragments. The most recent additions include the Letter To The Rev. H. Foote, Minister Of King’s Chapel, which addresses the […]