Monthly Archives: April 2017

• Individuals change over time. Some remain consistent in their thinking and behavior for longer periods than others, but everybody evolves as life marches on. To lefty types concerned with the biography or the written output of historical actors or political commentators, this … Continue reading →

• Hey, nice photo of a train wreck from the 1888 Burlington strike, eh? I actually bumped into this on Wikimedia Commons, it was an image originating in a book that I had been working with to write the WP article on … Continue reading →

• Volume I of the Debs Selected Works project will include the most years of any of the four books — two full decades, 1877 to 1896. The other three volumes will encompass just three decades of Debs’s activity, 1897 until … Continue reading →

• I am already finished reading microfilm for the first volume of the Debs Selected Works. That strikes me as being way ahead of the curve, I’m sure the feat won’t be repeated as rapidly for volumes 2, 3, and 4. The thing is, a … Continue reading →

• My friend David Walters saw Debs as a project before I did. From about 2004 to 2009 I was focused on what I still consider the main historical project in my life — a three volume work on a very few years of … Continue reading →