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ghost dance: shaman on the plains
Millennial cults. America has always been ready in times of stress to look for prophets, especially those not immune to the temptations of an earthly paradise. Whether from Handsome Lake, the Maharishi Yoga, or the many Teachers of Righteousness of … Continue reading
cargo cults and ghost dance
In times of stress keep a wary eye on the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake, Mohammed, Lenin types, or various Teachers of Righteousness. America is always ready for any millennial cult… A millenarian movement that was completely different- … Continue reading
killing time club: edumacation
by Art Chantry: this is an advert for one of those horrible “TIME, INC.” book clubs from the 1960’s. i don’t know how long it was around (the oldest examples i have are from the mid 1960’s). it was one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan E. Cober, Aldous Huxley, alexy brodovitch, American illustration 1960's, antonio frasconi, art chantry, Dylan Thomas, Jacob Landau, James McMullen, James Thurber, Joseph Low, leo & diane dillon, Louis di Valentin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel West, Paul Hogarth, ronald searle, seymour chwast, Thomas Jefferson, Thrift Store Collectibles, Time Inc. book clubs, Time-Life magazine, tomi ungerer, TRP books
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when the noble run free
The Enlightenment. It has become an ordinary and familiar thing; like a Marcel Duchamp sculpture, what was once subversive and novel, the quarrel with Christianity and that people of different religious affiliations could live peacefully together, has now become an … Continue reading
800,000 words
A religion of Jesus or a religion about Jesus…As Jonathan Swift once said, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” ”among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (jesus) … Continue reading
NATIVE INTELLIGENCE
The concept of the Manifest Destiny has acquired a variety of meanings over the years, and its inherent ambiguity has been part of its power. ”Manifest Destiny was always a general notion rather than a specific policy. The term combined a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.F. Tait, Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Abbe Raynal, Adrian van der Kemp, American Indian Movement, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Benjamin West, bishop Madison of Virginia, Chief Crazy Horse, Comte de Buffon, Crazy Horse, Dr. William Robertson, Ernest Lee Tuveson, Father Francisco Clavijero, Freud, General Sir William Johnson, George Catlin, Gerald Boerner, Greuze, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Isaac Newton, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Keith S. Thomson, Marquis de Chastellux, Marquis de Condorcet, Philip Mazzei, Rochambeau, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Jefferson, www.boerner.net
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INDIAN GIVERS & LAND DITHERS
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Stuart, American Slavery, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ben Franklin, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chief Billy Bowlegs, Comte de Buffon, Conrad Black, E. Adamson Hoebel, Ellen Wallace Sharples, Freidrich von Gentz, Geoff Mangum, George Catlin, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Jerry Keenan, John Trudell, Karl Bodmer, Marquis de Condorcet, Thomas Jefferson
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MALICE and the MISSISSIPPI
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Brendan O'Conner, Colin Farrell, Comte de Buffon, Dr. Johnson, Dr. William Robertson, E. Adamson Hoebel, Eve Kornfeld, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Horace Walpole, Immanuel Kant, Jacques le Moyne, James Ceasar, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Marlene Zuk, Oliver Goldsmith, Robertson History of America, Samuel Johnson, susan manning, Theodore de Bry, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire
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