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3 unusual facts about Appeal to Reason


Dickson County, Tennessee

It was the forerunner of the Appeal to Reason, which later became a weekly political newspaper published in the American Midwest from 1895 until 1922.

Frederic Heath

Heath indicated that he was brought into the actual socialist movement through three influences: Julius Wayland and his newspaper The Coming Nation, forerunner to the Appeal to Reason; stray copies of literature produced by the Socialist Labor Party of America; and a direct acquaintance with Victor L. Berger, a former teacher who had become the editor of the German-language socialist daily newspaper in Milwaukee.

Historia Calamitatum

"Historia Calamitatum" is the name of a bonus track off of U.K. version of the album Appeal to Reason by the punk rock band Rise Against.



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Julius Wayland

The success of Appeal to Reason led again to personal attacks on Wayland in the conservative press, particularly The Los Angeles Times.

At first a mixture of articles and extracts from works by well-known socialists and radicals, Appeal to Reason began to publish writings by many of the prominent young socialists and reformers of the era, including Jack London, "Mother" Jones, Upton Sinclair and Eugene Debs.