The second decade of the 2000s marks a near century of near-universal woman suffrage. But there was a time when woman suffrage was not universal, or universally desired. Some opposed woman suffrage because it went too far, others because it didn’t go far enough. Ellen Key and A. J. George were among the former, Dora […]
An astounding article on Sirfessor Malfew Seklew from the Chicago Daily Tribune of February 28 1916. The man identified here as Doc Rawleigh of the Toltec tribe may be Redwood Bailey, Cherokee. Bailey wrote about the Sirfessor in The Day Book for February 5 1916, and the Sirfessor replied in the same periodical five days […]
This article about Malfew Sklew and pals appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune on March 9th, 1918. Over at 213 West Oak street last night gathered a clan under a new banner. It was the housewarming of “The Superite Coffee Tavern,” where, according to its founder, Sirfessor F.M. Wilkesbarre, the nimble witted can walk the intellectual slack […]
Wikipedia: “At various times DeCasseres defended free speech. In 1909, he signed onto a petition calling out the police departments of New York City, Brooklyn, Yonkers and East Orange for their respective activities in preventing anarchist Emma Goldman from speaking in those cities.” A 28 page book was published titled The Suppression of free speech […]
Stand Alone | SA1015 | December, 2016 Subtitle/Theme: The Eagle and the Serpent Index of Names Published by: OVO The first bit of wholly original research to be published as part of the Stand Alone journal series is The Eagle and the Serpent Index of Names by Trevor Blake. This perfect bound paperback book is limited […]
David Westling comments on an article titled “‘Individualism’ in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” by Koenrad W. Swart. Swart’z article is from Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan. – Mar., 1962), pp. 77-90 (Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press | DOI: 10.2307/2708058 ). This article was in the archives of Egoist Archive. In an effort to get that […]
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Excerpt from a letter circa July 1932, from Warren Starr Van Valkenburgh (New York) to Emma Goldman (St. Tropez). I am enclosing the first issue of a boot-leg publication called the Clarion. L. J. Shapiro is a contractor, sympathizer but not an anarchist. He made available sufficient funds for the first three issues. Archie Turner […]
In doing some research for the UoE, we came across this gem. Life’s Paradoxes P. Luftig (pseud.), 1900 STRANGE! the man who works the hardest never makes a pile of pelf, And the flirt who flirts most madly sometimes falls in love herself; Strange! the bogus banks have buildings in the very finest style, And […]
Hayter I first heard of Vanoc II from a newspaper clipping laid into a second-hand copy of The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (New York: Modern Library 1919). To read that newspaper clipping, click here. In tracking down the source of that newspaper clipping I learned about an interesting character who spent a […]
