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About Me
- Alan Gilbert
- I am John Evans professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and author of Marx's Politics:Communists and Citizens (Rutgers, 1980), Democratic Individuality (Cambridge, 1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy (1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (Chicago March, 2012).
My Books
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
Black Patriots and Loyalists: News, Interviews and Reviews
- Lecture at University of Winnipeg - Founding Amnesia: The Fight Against Bondage & Genocide
- 3:AM Magazine: Non-Fiction Books of the Year List
- American Historical Review: Edward Countryman on Black Patriots and Loyalists
- Asking the Right Questions:- Talk at DU's Joseph Korbel's Speakers Series
- Audio of Wake Up Call with Felipe Luciano on WBAI
- Black Patriots and Loyalists a 2013 American Book of the Year of the Before Columbus Foundation
- Book Review by Douglas Egerton, The Historian (v.74,4)
- Book Review by Haider Khan, Cosmopolis
- Constitution Day Lecture at UT Tyler
- Denver Best Sellers List
- Interview on Soul Mic Metro
- Interview with Justin Desmangles on KDVS California
- Interview with Marc Steiner - WEAA Baltimore
- Interview with Marc Steiner and Dr. Lester Spencer - WEAA Baltimore
- Interview with Richard Marshall on Resonance 104.4 FM - London
- Jose de la Isla: 'Lincoln' and Black Patriots and Loyalists
- Living Dialogues - Radio Interview with Duncan Campbell Part 1
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 1
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 2
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 3
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 4
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 5
- News Report on KTEK tv, Texas
- Page 99 Test with Marshal Zeringue
- Review - University of Denver Magazine
- Review in the Loyalist Gazette
- They whited it out: Interview with Donnie Betts
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 1
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 2
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 3
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 4
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 5
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 6
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 7
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 1
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 2
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 3
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 4
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 1
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 2
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 3
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 4
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 5
Interviews
Main John Evans and Sand Creek documents and commentary
- Sand Creek Massacre Lecture
- Video: my talk at Northwestern
- The Smithsonian’s ghoulish hoarding of 20,000 skulls – a letter from Glenn Morris, pt. 2
- Iliff’s grisly display of a “biblical” text wrapped in human skin
- Additional evidence from John Evans' letters on his intent toward Cheyennes and Arapahoes
- Evans' late rationalizations and the banality of evil, document 8, part 2
- Methodists repudiate “the doctrine of discovery”
- Documents 1 and 2 Evans’ 1864 Proclamations
- Tink Tinker’s response to my commentary on the first documents revealed the important military conception, to this day, that “Iraq is Indian country”
- Document 3: the Camp Weld meeting
- Document 4: Evans’ statement to the people of Colorado after his firing
- Documents 5 and 6: the letters of Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer
- Document 7: The report of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the Civil War
- The crux of the case against John Evans as an exterminator
- Document 8: Evans’ 1888 interview with H.H. Bradford
Other articles on Sand Creek and Evans
- Interview with Duncan Campbell on the massacre
- The Denver Post and the burning issue of Sand Creek
- A letter on the memorial to Chivington at the State Capitol
- Paula Palmer on Sand Creek
- Northwestern student protest about Sand Creek and formation of committee
- Northwestern letter about Evans’ role
- Colorado History Museum
- Correspondance with Gary Roberts: the Exterminators
Posts on Plato
- The Crito: on reading and Socrates’s agency
- What Students of Plato May Learn from the Apology
- Glaucon's Military Obsession: another contradiction about the cave and the ascent, part 3
- Conflicting Images of the Cave: how to read the Republic, part 2
- Images of the Cave: how to read the contradictions in the Republic, part 1
- Satyagraha against one's own people - how Gandhi read Socrates, part 2
- Plato and the Consensus Police
- Hilary Putnam on Heidegger's Slipshod Scholarship
- How Gandhi Read the Apology
- Gandhi, Socrates and Satyagraha, pt 2
- Murder by Drone: the seductiveness of the ring of Gyges
- Gandhi, Socrates and Satyagraha, part 1
- What is the meaning of the naked corpse in Plato’s story of Gyges?
- Initiation in Plato or how Thrasymachus throws the argument off track, part 4
- The Snare of Words, part 3
- The Snare of Words, part 2
- The Snare of Words, part 1
- The Question about Justice and the Threshhold of Mortality
- A Question from Hilary Putnam
- Aesop, Plato and Barking Dogs: a note from Gregory Nagy
- Pythagoras on the Surface and in the Depths of the Republic
- If the City in Speech is Glaucon's, What City is Socrates's?
- The Republic’s Amusing Answer to the Athenian Charge Against Socrates: clean up the gods!
- Socrates' Worst Argument Ever: the philosopher and the barking dog
- The Ring of Gyges and the Murderousness of Politics
- Four Paths through the Republic's Woods
- Polemarchus as a symbol of the Republic's theme - a philosophical warrior for democracy against tyranny
- Politics and the God, part 2
- Politics and the God, part 1
- Going down the line for principle: IF Stone and Socrates in context, part 4
- Distinctions between Xenophon, Plato and Socrates: Stone's Trial of Socrates, part 3
- 2 senses of context in the startling Xenophon: Stone's Trial of Socrates, part 2
- I.F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates: why Plato is hard to read, part 1
- A Nietzschean turn: the roots of the snake goddess revisited, part 4
- Athena as Snake Goddess: women's power and the earth, part 3
- Epidauros: "Western" medicine, snakes and the psyche
- A Resistant Adherent to Democracy, part 2
- How to Read Plato: the farcical speech of the Laws
- The Civil Disobedience of Socrates, part 2
- On the cave and resistance: a conversation with Blinn Combs, part 1
- The Apology's Cave: Socrates' questioning, part 2
- The Apology's Cave: killing lightly, part 1
- The Divine, the Charioteer and Writing in Phaedrus, part 2
- The Living Word and Silent Writing in Phaedrus, part 1
- Plato's Symposium: the love-song of Alcibiades, the meaning of tyranny in Athens and America, part 2
- Plato's Symposium: love and beauty as image and argument, part 1
- Story and Philosophy: the Meno, part 2
- Story and Philosophy: the Meno, part 1
- Hilary Putnam on the 7th Letter and Will Altman on the Athenian Stranger
- Going Down: how Plato affirms Socrates, part 3
- Going Down: on a democratic interpretation of Plato, part 2
- Going Down: on a democratic interpretation of Plato, part 1
- On Some Wonders of Plato
- Mirrors: how Strauss "became" Heidegger in America
- Teaching Heidegger in Athens
- Athena Snake-Goddess, part 2
- Athena's and Asclepius's snakes: women leaders, earth-venoms, healing, part 1
- On "enemies" and extermination: Heidegger, Schmitt and Strauss
- Strong, Kirsch and Faye: what does it mean to say that Heidegger is a philosophical national socialist?
- Mirrors: the cave, Heidegger's Platonic National Socialism, and Leo Strauss, part 1
- Breaking News: The Cave, Heidegger's national socialism, and Leo Strauss
- A Philosopher - Steven Wagner - Looks at War
- Using a God for Politics: a note on the conjunction of Athens and Jerusalem
- Response to Peter Minowitz 1
- Only a Foolish Reactionary Would Assert that "There are no Women Philosophers"
- Living and Dead Words
- The Ring of Gyges, Lord of the Rings
- Crete, the Mysteries and Athenian Democracy
- Cretan Bull Vaulting and Plato's Republic
- What is Lost in Plato's Story of Atlantis?
- Plato's Atlantis and the Subversion of Athens
- Strauss's Vision of a Great Anti-Modern Tyrant and its Bizarre American Consequences
- Do Philosophers Counsel Tyrants?
Poems
My Blogs List
- Balkinization
- Colorado Jobs with Justice
- CPJN - Rob Prince's Blog
- Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
- Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni's blog
- Leiter Reports
- No Comment - Scott Horton
- Out of the Woods - Richard Schmitt
- The Daily Dish - Andrew Sullivan
- The Philosopher's Stone - Robert Paul Wolff
- TomDispatch -Tom Engelhardt
- Vincent Harding - Veterans of Hope
Followers
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