“Without Sin” Reading Review

Spencer Klaw’s, “Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community” is a fascinating overview of the Oneida community. Adherences of the Oneida community were a combination of Christian and Communist attempting to create a Utopian community and were led by John Humphrey Noyes. The Oneida community practiced several unusual principles, but were most […]

Barksdale Reading Reflection

Violence, Statecraft, and Statehood in the Early Republic : The State of Franklin, 1784–1788 by Kevin Barksdale I found this section of the book fascinating.  I am currently taking a course titled “The History of Sports in America” and I never thought that it would be so contingent with this article by Kevin Barksdale.  In […]