Category Archives: Slavery

You Can’t Padlock an Idea

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Uncomely and Broken

“You can padlock a building,” Myles Horton said of the closing of the Highlander Folk School in 1959. “But you can’t padlock an idea. Highlander is an idea. You can’t kill it and you can’t close it. … It will … Continue reading →

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RIP Stanley Crouch

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

Stanley Crouch came to speak at Sewanee in the mid-2000s as part of the “How Then Shall We Live?” series. Below is the author picture he sent. When I picked him up at the Nashville airport, he emerged from the … Continue reading →

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola chap. 30

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Antigone

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola, chap. 28

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola chap. 24

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: House of Cadmus

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola chap. 21

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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“Thoroughly Useless Nation”: Mommsen on the Irish

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

From Theodor Mommsen (trans. William P. Dickson) History of Rome, Vol. 4 (London 1867), Book 5, Chapter 7, pp. 286-87 (link here) Mind you, an edition of this work won a goddam Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902 In the mighty … Continue reading →

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“The American Cincinnatus”

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, “The American Cincinnatus” (1919) When I was a kid, I picked up a copy of the 1932 Georgetown yearbook for a dime at a second-hand store my mother and I used to go to. Being a … Continue reading →

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