As Dynamite to a Popgun

"They place in our hands powers which, compared with those we have had hitherto, are as dynamite to a popgun; but they do not make us any less selfish or greedy or any more honest, truthful, kindly or wise than before." C.J. Ducasse

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Guns & Sugar

Guns & Sugar The Specter of Revolution on Postslavery Plantations David Squires, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Slides available at dy

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A Voice from the Congo

Ward, A Voice from the Congo (pg. 307)

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The fall of the Congo Arabs : Hinde, Sidney Langford, 1863-1930 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

viii, 308 p. : 23 cm

Hinde, Fall of the Congo Arabs (pg. 65)

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COLA Common

COLA Common Book Featuring Dr. David Khey & Chance Blunt October 15, 2025 A Lesson Before Dying

Keys to the Archive: A Lesson Before Dying: Radio Free Bayonne

A Playlist to Accompany A Lesson Before Dying

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Carleton Beals, 1893-1979.

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Beals: “the most representative figure of this era among the North Americans active in Latin America… Beals embodied a tradition of intrepid journalism-cum-activism that, precisely because it was personal and not institutional, could survive as a memory and a political practice into the Cold War, providing the only relevant example at the outset of the Cuban revolution.”

-Van Gosse, Where the Boys Are (1993)

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Beals was the only U.S. journalist to interview Augusto César Sandino during his rebellion against U.S. occupation (1927-1933).

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“The most consistent voice on Latin America in US liberal-left circles.”

— Van Gosse on Beals, Where the Boys Are

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“Beals’s florid language and unashamedly gringo outlook seem quaint and ethnocentric from this end of the century.”

— Van Gosse, Where the Boys Are

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““Beals also captured the minutiae of poverty, political oppression and the imperial hand in terse, almost cinematic prose.””

— Van Gosse, Where the Boys Are

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Beals & Evans documented the end of Machado’s regime. Sometimes gets them compared to Agee & Evans.

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Carleton Beals Books: Banana Gold (1932), The Crime of Cuba (1933), The Stones Awake (1936), America South (1937).

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““He communicated not contempt but admiration for Latin Americans who were trying to remake their countries, and targeted with unforgiving precision the mercenary, vulgar North Americans he found everywhere looking for an easy dollar. After 1945, opposition to empire often amounted to no more than this: speaking out on behalf of those who were different. During the Cold War years, Beals was almost the only writer of repute outside the quarantined left who refused to bow to the new anti-Communist orthodoxy and still asserted the traditional anti-imperialism, though his readership shrank…””

— Van Gosse, Where The Boys Are

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Waldo Frank, author of South American Journey (1943)

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Fair Play for Cuba Committee (Lee Harvey Oswald chapter)

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Joseph Conrad, who went to Matadi while working under Belgium colonial interests.

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Issue of Blackwood's Magazine that included the first installment of Heart of Darkness.