User contributions for IWPCHI

24 April 2024

• 01:1401:14, 24 April 2024 diff hist +61‎ Codex Tovar ‎ →‎External Links: Added link to John Carter Brown Library's Codex Tovar at Internet Archive current
• 01:0501:05, 24 April 2024 diff hist +65‎ Codex Tovar ‎ →‎External Links: Added link to John Carter Brown Library's copy of Codex Tovar at Internet Archive.
• 01:0201:02, 24 April 2024 diff hist +24‎ m Codex Tovar ‎ Added section for "External Links"

11 October 2022

• 20:4220:42, 11 October 2022 diff hist +2,195‎ Talk:Sons of Liberty ‎ →‎clandestine vs. revolutionary: Reply Tag: Reply

22 September 2022

• 02:1002:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +1,701‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ →‎New York: Added list of Sons of Liberty members in the colony of New York to paragraph 3 of "New York" section Tag: Disambiguation links added
• 01:3501:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +1,696‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ →‎History: Para 8: added more detail about just how "secret" the Sons of Liberty kept their organization in 1769 during their 4th anniversary soiree; broke up para 8 into two paragraphs.

21 September 2022

• 22:0622:06, 21 September 2022 diff hist −1‎ m Sons of Liberty ‎ →‎History: Made minor puncuational correction in para 8, last sentence.
• 22:0322:03, 21 September 2022 diff hist +1‎ m Sons of Liberty ‎ Made minor punctuational correction to my previous edit.
• 22:0222:02, 21 September 2022 diff hist −15‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ Edited caption of "broadside" image to reflect that it's not a broadside it's clearly a handbill. The dimensions of it are 12.5 x 18.4 cm (approximately 5 by 7 inches). See https://www.masshist.org/database/240
• 21:4021:40, 21 September 2022 diff hist −2‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ →‎History: Made minor corrections and additions to my previous edit in para 8.
• 21:3721:37, 21 September 2022 diff hist +129‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ →‎History: Added in para 8: First sentence I ridicule the idea that the Sons of Liberty were a "secret society"; later in the para I note that in their extremely public celebration of the 4th anniversary of their founding, they made no attempt at secrecy - quite the opposite.
• 21:2821:28, 21 September 2022 diff hist +31‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ In "History" section, edited caption for the cartoon to make it clear that it is a British anti-American propaganda cartoon, not a celebration of the revolutionary activities of the Sons of Liberty.
• 21:2221:22, 21 September 2022 diff hist +1,053‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ →‎History: Added paragraph 8.
• 20:4420:44, 21 September 2022 diff hist +3‎ m Sons of Liberty ‎ Added a missing "and" in para one to my previous edit.
• 20:4320:43, 21 September 2022 diff hist +59‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ In para 1 of introduction: added statement that the Sons of Liberty didn't cease to exist after 1765; the most active organizations maintained their cohesion and activities throughout the entirety of the Revolutionary period (and arguably even after that, in the struggle for a Bill of Rights and in uprisings such as Shays' Rebellion).
• 20:3720:37, 21 September 2022 diff hist −480‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ Removed paragraph 2 of the introduction as the Sons of Liberty was not a "group" but a number of similarly-named individual organizations who most certainly did not *all* "disband after the Stamp Act was repealed".
• 20:3220:32, 21 September 2022 diff hist +399‎ Stamp Act 1765 ‎ →‎Massachusetts: I re-discovered an article in the Boston Evening Post recording the occurrence the previous week of the 4th anniversary meeting of the True Sons of Liberty of Boston, Mass held in Dorchester on 14 August 1769.
• 20:2720:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +1‎ Sons of Liberty ‎ In introductory paragraph: removed the word "clandestine" from the descriptive sentence, replacing it with the word "revolutionary". The Sons of Liberty met openly under "Liberty Trees" where they gave public speeches and declared their intentions quite publicly. When they met, they often met in public, parading to their meeting place and advertising the event afterwards in newspapers. See https://www.masshist.org/dorr/volume/2/sequence/674 (Column 1). This occurred in 1769.
• 19:5719:57, 21 September 2022 diff hist +431‎ Benjamin Edes ‎ →‎Career: Para 2: Added information that John Gill was a member of Sons of Liberty as well as Benjamin Edes according to a document listing all the members of the Sons of Liberty who attended a dinner together, in celebration of the 4th anniversary of the forming of the Sons of Liberty, at the Liberty Tree Tavern in Dorchester on 14 Aug. 1769. Also changed the false claim that the Sons of Liberty were a "secret society". They publicly flaunted their membership in the group.
• 03:0303:03, 21 September 2022 diff hist −3‎ m Hutchinson letters affair ‎ →‎Background: Made minor correction to my previous edit.
• 03:0203:02, 21 September 2022 diff hist +350‎ Hutchinson letters affair ‎ →‎Background: para 1 in "Background": added fact that major unrest in fact occurred in New York City earlier than in Massachusetts.
• 02:4402:44, 21 September 2022 diff hist +1‎ Hutchinson letters affair ‎ →‎Background: Added an "Oxford comma" in para 2 of "background" section to make it clear that the Hutchinson letters were written *to* Thomas Whatley; he was not the subject of the letters who needed to be responded to.
• 02:3402:34, 21 September 2022 diff hist +68‎ Boston Gazette ‎ →‎Publishing: Edited para 5 to make the point that practically *all* colonial-era and early American newspapers published ads for the sale of slaves and for runaway slaves as well as runaway indentured servants.
• 02:2802:28, 21 September 2022 diff hist +4‎ Benjamin Edes ‎ →‎Career: In para 5 of "Career" section, added brackets around "Eddy's Almanak" to see if there's a Wikipedia article on that subject.
• 02:2602:26, 21 September 2022 diff hist +4‎ Benjamin Edes ‎ →‎Career: Added brackets around "Loyall Nine" in para 3 to elicit a link to that Wikipedia article, if it exists.
• 02:2302:23, 21 September 2022 diff hist −10‎ Benjamin Edes ‎ →‎Career: Removed repeated word "articles" in para 6 of "Career" section.
• 02:1702:17, 21 September 2022 diff hist −121‎ Benjamin Edes ‎ Removed last sentence in "Early Life" as it's just a scurrilous attack on the public schools of Charleston, South Carolina.
• 00:2300:23, 21 September 2022 diff hist +170‎ Boston Gazette ‎ →‎External links: Added link to a bound volume of the Boston Gazette covering the period just after the Battle of Bunker Hill in June, 1775 to early December 1776 from the John Adams Library collection at the Boston Public Library.

18 September 2022

• 20:1620:16, 18 September 2022 diff hist +28‎ Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel ‎ →‎Biography: Edited the caption for the engraving of the leaders of the Paris Commune.
• 20:1420:14, 18 September 2022 diff hist +194‎ Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel ‎ Added engraving of the leaders of the Paris Commune; Vermorel is at the bottom of the group of portraits, lower right.
• 20:0020:00, 18 September 2022 diff hist +110‎ Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel ‎ Edited the introductory sentence to give a more accurate picture of the amazingly diverse talent of this man. Also added some minor changes in the "Biography" section.
• 19:5419:54, 18 September 2022 diff hist +2,241‎ Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel ‎ →‎Biography: Added a wealth of information from the French Wikipedia. Tag: Disambiguation links added

17 September 2022

• 19:4019:40, 17 September 2022 diff hist +12‎ V. Gordon Childe ‎ Added term "Marxist" to first sentence of introduction because above all else, Childe was a Marxist throughout almost his entire adult life; also so people can read the Wikipedia article explaining what a "Marxist" is.
• 19:3719:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +77‎ V. Gordon Childe ‎ Added "External links" section with link to 141 published books and articles by and about Childe available for free from Internet Archive. You're welcome! ; )

9 September 2022

• 18:5018:50, 9 September 2022 diff hist −1‎ m Thomas Hutchinson (governor) ‎ Fixed typo in my last edit in "Publications" (Hutchinson's 1769 'Collection of Original Papers') "Massachusetts" is spelled "Massachusets" in the original.
• 18:2518:25, 9 September 2022 diff hist +285‎ Thomas Hutchinson (governor) ‎ Added a link to the New York Public Library's copy of Hutchinson's original 1769 edition of his "appendix" to his History of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• 17:5417:54, 9 September 2022 diff hist +607‎ Thomas Hutchinson (governor) ‎ Added two links in "Publications" to "The Hutchinson Papers", Vols. I and II, a reconstruction of the documentary material Hutchinson compiled when writing his "History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay"

30 August 2022

• 07:4407:44, 30 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ m Trial of the 193 ‎ Added links to "Russia" and "Tzarism" in para 1 for those who aren't familiar with Russian history or the history of "Tzarism".
• 07:3707:37, 30 August 2022 diff hist +15‎ Trial of the 193 ‎ In intro: re-characterized the trial as the largest "in the history of Tsarist Russia" which is, I believe what the previous author of that line intended to say and which is, to my knowledge, historically accurate.
• 07:3607:36, 30 August 2022 diff hist +24‎ Trial of the 193 ‎ In the introduction and background sections: correctly characterized the defendants as "socialists" - which is what the majority of them most certainly were.
• 07:1307:13, 30 August 2022 diff hist +62‎ Trial of the 193 ‎ →‎Outcome: Adjusted first sentence to indicate more accurately the predictable severity of the punishments meted out to the defendants, who were doing things that were either legal or at least tolerated throughout most of Europe and in the US at the time.
• 07:0007:00, 30 August 2022 diff hist +3‎ Trial of the 193 ‎ →‎Background: Added date of Stepniak's testimony as to how Russian peasants inadvertently disclosed presence of agitators in their midst.
• 06:5706:57, 30 August 2022 diff hist +1,392‎ Trial of the 193 ‎ →‎Background: Added extensive testimony of contemporary Ukrainian revolutionary Sergei Stepniak as to how peasants inadvertently disclosed the presence of agitators in their midst to the local authorities.
• 06:4206:42, 30 August 2022 diff hist +1,312‎ Trial of the 193 ‎ Re-characterized the outcome of the proceedings from the absurd "lenient" to "severe" in "outcome" section; cited the testimony of Sergei Stepniak, one of the most prominent Russian revolutionary leaders of that era in paras 1 in intro and in para 1 of "Outcome" section.

29 August 2022

• 21:5021:50, 29 August 2022 diff hist +141‎ Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky ‎ →‎Death and memorial service: Added more from Kropotkin's memorial essay in para 2
• 21:4721:47, 29 August 2022 diff hist +15‎ m Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky ‎ →‎Death and memorial service: Removed brackets from "Peter Kropotkin"'s name as I had already had that link created in a previous paragraph.
• 21:4121:41, 29 August 2022 diff hist +1‎ Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky ‎ →‎Revolutionary life: Re-ordered the last two paras for better continuity of the narrative (which I had screwed up in a previous edit lol)
• 21:3821:38, 29 August 2022 diff hist +6‎ Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky ‎ →‎Death and memorial service: Added a [sic] after the odd spelling of "Woking" in para 2.
• 21:3321:33, 29 August 2022 diff hist +4,255‎ Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky ‎ Added a series of tributes to Stepniak from Peter Kropotkin, written as a memorial essay in a 1917 US edition of Stepniak's play "The New Convert".
• 21:0021:00, 29 August 2022 diff hist +260‎ Isaac Sears ‎ Added link to Internet Archive's copy of Robert J. Christen's PhD thesis on Sears, already cited in the article.