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Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : PSU:000007846991
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021264431
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:1003763
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : WISC:89061933651
Author : Andreas A. T.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243824300
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002099245
Author : Adam Selzer,William Griffith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762791125
A delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of the Windy City through their deeds and misdeeds. Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Chicago History features twenty-five short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Windy City. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Chicago's past—both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through.
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 922 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : UOM:39015013021541
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000906958
Author : Caxton Club
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226468501
Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.
Author : Robert L. McCaul
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780809380534
In the pre-Civil War and Civil War periods the Illinois black code deprived blacks of suffrage and court rights, and the Illinois Free Schools Act kept most black children out of public schooling. But, as McCaul documents, they did not sit idly by. They applied the concepts of “bargaining power” (rewarding, punishing, and dialectical) and the American ideal of “community” to participate in winning two major victories during this era. By the use of dialectical power, exerted mainly via John Jones’ tract, The Black Laws of Illinois, they helped secure the repeal of the state’s black code; by means of punishing power, mainly through boycotts and ‘‘invasions,’’ they exerted pressures that brought a cancellation of the Chicago public school policy of racial segregation. McCaul makes clear that the blacks’ struggle for school rights is but one of a number of such struggles waged by disadvantaged groups (women, senior citizens, ethnics, and immigrants). He postulates a “stage’’ pattern for the history of the black struggle—a pattern of efforts by federal and state courts to change laws and constitutions, followed by efforts to entice, force, or persuade local authorities to comply with the laws and constitutional articles and with the decrees of the courts.
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684831381
A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s.
Author : Ryan W. Keating
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823276615
“An exceptional book that should make an immediately positive impact on the study of Irish Americans in the Civil War.” —The Journal of Southern History Drawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from the perspective of local communities in Connecticut, Illinois, and Wisconsin and the relationships between soldiers and the home front. Research on the impact of the Civil War on Irish Americans has traditionally fallen into one of two tracks, arguing that the Civil War either further alienated Irish immigrants from American society or that military service in defense of the Union offered these men a means of assimilation. In this study of Irish American service, Ryan W. Keating argues that neither paradigm really holds, because many Irish Americans during this time already considered themselves to be assimilated members of American society. This comprehensive study argues that the local community was often more important to ethnic soldiers than the imagined ethnic community, especially in terms of political, social, and economic relationships. An analysis of the Civil War era from this perspective provides a much clearer understanding of immigrant place and identity during the nineteenth century. The author focuses on three regiments not traditionally studied—rather than those of New York City and Boston—and supports his argument through advanced quantitative analysis of military service records and a wealth of raw data, an unusual and exciting development in Civil War studies. Shades of Green’s impressive research provides a significant contribution to scholarship sure to bring something valuable to several fields of study.
Author : Josiah Seymour Currey
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849687342
Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S. Currey - and possibly there will never be. Without making this work a catalogue or a mere list of dates or distracting the reader and losing his attention, he builds a bridge for every historically interested reader. The history of Windy City is not only particularly interesting to her citizens, but also important for the understanding of the history of the West. This volume is number two out of five and covers topics like Douglas and Lincoln in Chicago, the Great Fires, the Civil War, Evanston and the Universities.
Author : John William Nelson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469675213
In early North America, carrying watercraft—usually canoes—and supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continent's interior. The Chicago portage, a network of overland canoe routes that connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds, grew into a crossroads of interaction as Indigenous and European people vied for its control during early contact and colonization. John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago's portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers, Jesuit missionaries, Meskwaki warriors, British officers, Anishinaabe headmen, and American settlers. Nelson compellingly demonstrates that even deep within the interior, power relations fluctuated based on the control of waterways and local environmental knowledge. Pushing beyond political and cultural explanations for Indigenous-European relations in the borderlands of North America, Nelson places environmental and geographic realities at the center of the history of Indigenous Chicago, offering a new explanation for how the United States gained control of the North American interior through a two-pronged subjugation of both the landscapes and peoples of the continent.