Emma Goldman Annotated

I started the process of creating a nicely formatted edition of Emma Goldman's "Anarchism and Other Essays" with annotations of historical figures. It will look similar to "The Enchiridion", but it is a significantly longer work. You can preview the current draft now and I'll drop notes here when there are updated editions. The style of my annotations are all about saving you time looking up historical contexts whenever people are places are mentioned in passing in these older documents. Read on to see examples.

Marginal Notes
As an example, Osawatomie is mentioned in the preface but most modern people (people alive today) won't know that it is mentioned because of what happened there:

The Battle of Osawatomie happened on August 30, 1856 when 250-300 Border Ruffians led by John W. Reid and Rev. Marvin White attacked the city of Osawatomie. John W. Reid was intent on destroying free state settlements and then moving on to Topeka and Lawrence to do more of the same. John Brown first got word that the group was coming when they shot his son Frederick. Brown with forty or so men tried to defend the town against the pro-slavery partisans, causing heavy casualties before being forced to withdraw; town of Osawatomie was then looted and burned. This is one event in series of skirmishes between abolitionists and pro-slavery Missourians in what has been known as Bleeding Kansas.

I believe that if I can save you some time understanding the relevance of the references these older writers used (where they were more common knowledge back then) you'll better enjoy the reading and catch up on the history. After all, if you have printed this out on paper, you wouldn't be online to look up the references yourself. You will have a small bit of the history at-the-ready in your dead-tree edition.

• Draft 2 now available.

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