Phil Eiger Newmann, Journey’s End, 2020.
2,226 words
On December 18, 1620, the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Bay, on the western part of Cape Cod Bay. They were a small group of people, a mix of Protestant religious fanatics and venture capitalists. They would go on to found an enormously successful society. (more…)
Benjamin Haydon, The Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840, 1841.
5,142 words
The white race is uniquely altruistic. Why? This is a very difficult question to answer. It is easy to understand altruistic behavior for the benefit of one’s family members. This is common among animals. Mother bears will put their lives in danger to protect their cubs from attack. Sacrifices for one’s relatives and ingroup ethnic members (more…)
Peter Minuit arriving with his colonists in the New World.
3,727 words
On March 29, 1638, a group of men on the ship Kalmar Nyckel established the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River. They had set sail from Gothenburg, Sweden four months earlier. The Swedes were led by the Dutchman Peter Minuit (c. 1580-1638), a former director of New Amsterdam (more…)
1,319 words
Jacqueline Yallop
Dreamstreets: A Journey Through Britain’s Village Utopias
London: Jonathan Cape, 2015
Dreamstreets tells the story of various ‘model villages’ that were built during the industrial revolution and beyond but it also tells a wider history of Britain through the nineteenth century. (more…)
