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Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Higginson Books
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0832857289
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : UCLA:31158010110988
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Cook County (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:17577741
Author : Weston A. Goodspeed
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849690175
In this book the author, Weston A. Goodspeed, and the editor, Juergen beck, offer a general survey of Cook County history, including a condensed history of Chicago and special account of districts outside the city limits, from the earliest settlement to the time of the turn of the 20th century. There is hardly a book that contains more information and is more complete than this edition with more than 540 pages full of facts and data.
Author : Bessie Louise Pierce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226668406
The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
Author : Francis Perego Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : America
ISBN : UCAL:$B79138
Author : Francis Perego Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Slavery
ISBN : MINN:31951001490724H
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Cook County (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:1336313999
Author : Weston Arthur Goodspeed,Daniel David Healy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cook County (Ill.)
ISBN : OCLC:43074743
Author : William E. Van Vugt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : British Americans
ISBN : 0252067576
From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.
Author : A. Berle Clemensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Canals
ISBN : UIUC:30112104618597
Author : Francis P. Harper (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128078339
Author : Weston Arthur Goodspeed,Daniel David Healy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : History
ISBN : YALE:39002015454797
Author : Larry A. McClellan
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809339259
"Onward to Chicago charts the evolution of the northeastern Illinois freedom network and shows how, despite its small Black community, Chicago emerged as a point of refuge. While traditional histories of the Underground Railroad in Illinois start in 1839, and focus largely on the romanticized tales of white men, Larry A. McClellan reframes the story, not only introducing readers to earlier freedom seekers, but also illustrating that those who bravely aided them were Black and white, men and women"--
Author : Caxton Club
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.