Gertrude Chandler Warner's most well known writing is "The Boxcar Children." But that series is far from the only professional writing Chandler did – she made a career as a writer while also teaching elementary school for decades. 

Research:
Abate, M.A. Not Hoovervilles, But Hooch: Gertrude Chandler Warner’s The Boxcar Childrenand The Roaring Twenties. Child Lit Educ 47, 257–266 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-016-9275-5
Braccidiferro, Gail. “The Boxcar Children: A Museum Caper.” New York Times. June 20, 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/nyregion/the-boxcar-children-a-museum-caper.html
Crowe, Chris. “Young Adult Literature: Rescuing Reluctant Readers.” The English Journal, vol. 88, no. 5, 1999, pp. 113–16. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/821799
Ellsworth, Mary Ellen. “Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children.” Albert Whitman & Company. Morton Grove, Illinois. 1997.
Lindberg, Mary Anne. “Survival Literature in Children’s Fiction.” Elementary English, vol. 51, no. 3, 1974, pp. 329–35. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41387166
Meese, Ruth Lyn. “MODERN FAMILY: Adoption and Foster Care in Children’s Literature.” The Reading Teacher, vol. 66, no. 2, 2012, pp. 129–37. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23322722
Tolentino, Jia. “’The Boxcar Children and the Spirit of Capitalism.” The New Yorker. June 2, 2016. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-boxcar-children-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism#:~:text=The%20second%20time%20that%20Gertrude,and%20family%20and%20life's%20rewards.
Warner, Gertrude Chandler. “The Box-Car Children.” Rand McNally. Chicago/New York. 1924. Accessed online: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42796/42796-h/42796-h.htm
Warner, Gertrude Chandler. “Good Americans: First Lessons for the Littlest Ones.” Educational Publishing Company. Boston. New York. London. 1926. Accessed online: https://books.google.com/books?id=gONow7KFCB0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Warner, Gertrude Chandler. “The House of Delight.” Pilgrim Press. 1916. Accessed online: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/62714/pg62714-images.html
Warner, Gertrude Chandler. “Star Stories for Little Folks.” Pilgrim Press. Boston, Chicago. 1918. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/starstoriesforli00warn/page/8/mode/2up
Warner, Frances and Gertrude. “Life’s Minor Collisions.” Houghton Mifflin. Boston and New York. 1921. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/lifesminorcollis00warnrich/page/n9/mode/2up

Gertrude Chandler Warner's most well known writing is "The Boxcar Children." But that series is far from the only professional writing Chandler did &ndash; she made a career as a writer while also teaching elementary school for decades.&nbsp;
Research:
<ul>
<li>Abate, M.A. Not Hoovervilles, But Hooch: Gertrude Chandler Warner&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Boxcar Childrenand The Roaring Twenties.&nbsp;Child Lit Educ&nbsp;47, 257&ndash;266 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-016-9275-5</li>
<li>Braccidiferro, Gail. &ldquo;The Boxcar Children: A Museum Caper.&rdquo; New York Times. June 20, 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/nyregion/the-boxcar-children-a-museum-caper.html</li>
<li>Crowe, Chris. &ldquo;Young Adult Literature: Rescuing Reluctant Readers.&rdquo;&nbsp;The English Journal, vol. 88, no. 5, 1999, pp. 113&ndash;16.&nbsp;JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/821799</li>
<li>Ellsworth, Mary Ellen. &ldquo;Gertrude Chandler Warner and the Boxcar Children.&rdquo; Albert Whitman &amp; Company. Morton Grove, Illinois. 1997.</li>
<li>Lindberg, Mary Anne. &ldquo;Survival Literature in Children&rsquo;s Fiction.&rdquo; Elementary English, vol. 51, no. 3, 1974, pp. 329&ndash;35. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41387166</li>
<li>Meese, Ruth Lyn. &ldquo;MODERN FAMILY: Adoption and Foster Care in Children&rsquo;s Literature.&rdquo;&nbsp;The Reading Teacher, vol. 66, no. 2, 2012, pp. 129&ndash;37.&nbsp;JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23322722</li>
<li>Tolentino, Jia. &ldquo;&rsquo;The Boxcar Children and the Spirit of Capitalism.&rdquo; The New Yorker. June 2, 2016. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-boxcar-children-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism#:~:text=The%20second%20time%20that%20Gertrude,and%20family%20and%20life's%20rewards.</li>
<li>Warner, Gertrude Chandler. &ldquo;The Box-Car Children.&rdquo; Rand McNally. Chicago/New York. 1924. Accessed online: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42796/42796-h/42796-h.htm</li>
<li>Warner, Gertrude Chandler. &ldquo;Good Americans: First Lessons for the Littlest Ones.&rdquo; Educational Publishing Company. Boston. New York. London. 1926. Accessed online: https://books.google.com/books?id=gONow7KFCB0C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false</li>
<li>Warner, Gertrude Chandler. &ldquo;The House of Delight.&rdquo; Pilgrim Press. 1916. Accessed online: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/62714/pg62714-images.html</li>
<li>Warner, Gertrude Chandler. &ldquo;Star Stories for Little Folks.&rdquo; Pilgrim Press. Boston, Chicago. 1918. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/starstoriesforli00warn/page/8/mode/2up</li>
<li>Warner, Frances and Gertrude. &ldquo;Life&rsquo;s Minor Collisions.&rdquo; Houghton Mifflin. Boston and New York. 1921. Accessed online: https://archive.org/details/lifesminorcollis00warnrich/page/n9/mode/2up</li>
</ul>

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Gertrude Chandler Warner's most well known writing is "The Boxcar Children." But that series is far from the only professional writing Chandler did – she made a career as a writer while also teaching elementary school for decades. 

Gertrude Chandler Warner: ‘The Boxcar Children’ and Beyond

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/b50a2649-0289-45bc-bf2d-b29b0180459d/transcript

Peter Kropotkin was incredibly influential in the development of anarchism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Part one of this subject focuses on the formative moments in his early life that contributed to his becoming an anarchist communist.

Research:
"Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631003701/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=ed5ae018. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
Adams, Matthew S. “Rejecting the American Model: Peter Kropotkin’s Radical Communism.” History of Political Thought , Spring 2014, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26227268
Avrich, Paul, Miller, Martin A. "Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin". Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Feb. 2026, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Alekseyevich-Kropotkin. Accessed 23 March 2026.
Avrich, Paul. “Kropotkin in America.” International Review of Social History , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , April 1980 , pp. 1 – 34 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000006192.
Davis, Mike. “Kropotkin and Climate Change.” Transnational Institute of Social Ecology. 1/4/2018. https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/
Kinna, Ruth. “Kropotkin's Theory of Mutual Aid in Historical Context.” International Review of Social History , AUGUST 1995, Vol. 40, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44583751
Kropotkin, P. “Fields, Factories, and Workshops: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons. New York and London. 1913.
Kropotkin, P. “Memoirs of a Revolutionist.” London. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1906.
Kropotkin, P. “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.” New York. McClure Phillips & Co. 1902.
Kropotkin, Peter Alexeievich. "Memoirs of a Revolutionist." Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, Gale, 2006, pp. 11-13. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3456600019/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=f35f5dcf. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
Kropotkin, Peter. “Anarchism.” Encyclopedia Britannica 11th 1911.
Kropotkin, Peter. “The Conquest of Bread.” New York. Vanguard Press. 1926.
Macauley, David. "Anarchism." Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2009, pp. 38-40. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3234100023/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=d3a1d4db. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
Montpetit, Mathilde. “Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899).” The Public Domain Review. 1/13/2026. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kropotkin-memoirs/
Moron, Gary Saul. “Kropotkin’s dead goose.” The New Criterion February 2022.
Prince P. A. Kropotkin. Nature 106, 735–736 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106735a0
Quinn, Adam. “’Abolish the Monopolizing of the Earth’: Nature, Science, and the Environmental Politics of Transnational Anarchism.” Radical History Review. Issue 145 (January 2023). DOI 10.1215/01636545-10063606
Saytanov, Sergey V. “The Anarchist Who Stood Up to Lenin and the Bolshevik Coup of October 1917.” History News Network. July 19, 2015. https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-anarchist-who-stood-up-to-lenin-and-the-bolshe
Vollaro, Daniel. “When Anarchists Speak of Thoreau.” The Thoreau Society Bulletin, Spring 2016, No. 293 (Spring 2016). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44651625
Wills, Matthew. “Peter Kropotkin, the Prince of Mutual Aid.” JSTOR Daily. 2/4/2025. https://daily.jstor.org/peter-kropotkin-the-prince-of-mutual-aid/

 

Peter Kropotkin was incredibly influential in the development of anarchism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Part one of this subject focuses on the formative moments in his early life that contributed to his becoming an anarchist communist.
Research:
<ul>
<li>"Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631003701/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&amp;sid=bookmark-GPS&amp;xid=ed5ae018. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.</li>
<li>Adams, Matthew S. &ldquo;Rejecting the American Model: Peter Kropotkin&rsquo;s Radical Communism.&rdquo; History of Political Thought , Spring 2014, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26227268</li>
<li>Avrich, Paul, Miller, Martin A. "Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin". Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Feb. 2026, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Alekseyevich-Kropotkin. Accessed 23 March 2026.</li>
<li>Avrich, Paul. &ldquo;Kropotkin in America.&rdquo; International Review of Social History , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , April 1980 , pp. 1 &ndash; 34 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000006192.</li>
<li>Davis, Mike. &ldquo;Kropotkin and Climate Change.&rdquo; Transnational Institute of Social Ecology. 1/4/2018. https://trise.org/2018/01/04/kropotkin-and-climate-change/</li>
<li>Kinna, Ruth. &ldquo;Kropotkin's Theory of Mutual Aid in Historical Context.&rdquo; International Review of Social History , AUGUST 1995, Vol. 40, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44583751</li>
<li>Kropotkin, P. &ldquo;Fields, Factories, and Workshops: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work.&rdquo; G.P. Putnam&rsquo;s Sons. New York and London. 1913.</li>
<li>Kropotkin, P. &ldquo;Memoirs of a Revolutionist.&rdquo; London. Swan Sonnenschein &amp; Co. 1906.</li>
<li>Kropotkin, P. &ldquo;Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.&rdquo; New York. McClure Phillips &amp; Co. 1902.</li>
<li>Kropotkin, Peter Alexeievich. "Memoirs of a Revolutionist." Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, Gale, 2006, pp. 11-13. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3456600019/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&amp;sid=bookmark-GPS&amp;xid=f35f5dcf. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.</li>
<li>Kropotkin, Peter. &ldquo;Anarchism.&rdquo; Encyclopedia Britannica 11th 1911.</li>
<li>Kropotkin, Peter. &ldquo;The Conquest of Bread.&rdquo; New York. Vanguard Press. 1926.</li>
<li>Macauley, David. "Anarchism." Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2009, pp. 38-40. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3234100023/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&amp;sid=bookmark-GPS&amp;xid=d3a1d4db. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.</li>
<li>Montpetit, Mathilde. &ldquo;Peter Kropotkin&rsquo;s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899).&rdquo; The Public Domain Review. 1/13/2026. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kropotkin-memoirs/</li>
<li>Moron, Gary Saul. &ldquo;Kropotkin&rsquo;s dead goose.&rdquo; The New Criterion February 2022.</li>
<li>Prince P. A. Kropotkin. Nature 106, 735&ndash;736 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106735a0</li>
<li>Quinn, Adam. &ldquo;&rsquo;Abolish the Monopolizing of the Earth&rsquo;: Nature, Science, and the Environmental Politics of Transnational Anarchism.&rdquo; Radical History Review. Issue 145 (January 2023). DOI 10.1215/01636545-10063606</li>
<li>Saytanov, Sergey V. &ldquo;The Anarchist Who Stood Up to Lenin and the Bolshevik Coup of October 1917.&rdquo; History News Network. July 19, 2015. https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-anarchist-who-stood-up-to-lenin-and-the-bolshe</li>
<li>Vollaro, Daniel. &ldquo;When Anarchists Speak of Thoreau.&rdquo; The Thoreau Society Bulletin, Spring 2016, No. 293 (Spring 2016). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44651625</li>
<li>Wills, Matthew. &ldquo;Peter Kropotkin, the Prince of Mutual Aid.&rdquo; JSTOR Daily. 2/4/2025. https://daily.jstor.org/peter-kropotkin-the-prince-of-mutual-aid/</li>
</ul>
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Peter Kropotkin was incredibly influential in the development of anarchism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Part one of this subject focuses on the formative moments in his early life that contributed to his becoming an anarchist communist.

Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, Part 1

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This 2021 episode examines the Haymarket Riot, one of the many interconnected events and people and movements that are all integral to defining the basic idea of what a full-time job is in the U.S. 

This 2021 episode examines the Haymarket Riot, one of the many interconnected events and people and movements that are all integral to defining the basic idea of what a full-time job is in the U.S.&nbsp;

SYMHC Classics: Haymarket Riot

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Holly talks about Gladys Bentley's gender presentation, and the trouble with Maceo Sheffield. She and Tracy also discuss James Braid's ethics in both medicine and hypnotism.

Holly talks about Gladys Bentley's gender presentation, and the trouble with Maceo Sheffield. She and Tracy also discuss James Braid's ethics in both medicine and hypnotism.

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Gertrude Chandler Warner: ‘The Boxcar Children’ and Beyond

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