For more information on History Fair, including an extensive
list of topic suggestions, visit the web site of
the Chicago
Metro History Education CenterResearch Suggestions for the 2006 Chicago Metro History Fair Theme
The Newberry Library has many primary and secondary sources that could support research on subjects related to “Taking a Stand” in Chicago history, the theme of the 2006 Chicago Metro History Fair. The Newberry is open to researchers with relevant research topics who are at least 16 years old or a junior in high school. The Newberry will be most useful to researchers when used in conjunction with other libraries. Some of the secondary sources below are not in the Newberry collections, and even when secondary works are at the Newberry, it may be easier to work with copies found in other libraries, since the Newberry collections do not circulate.
Online finding aids and catalog records have been linked below when available, but not all such records are online. Visiting the library in person is indispensable when trying to determine what the Newberry Library may have on any particular topic.
For more information on History Fair, including an extensive
list of topic suggestions, visit the web site of
the Chicago
Metro History Education Center
To see images related to the theme of “Taking a Stand,” see the Web site of the Newberry Library’s 2004 exhibit, Outspoken: Chicago’s Free Speech Tradition.
The Pullman Porters' Review. (Case Pullman 06/01/04 box 17 folder 489). [The Guide to the Pullman Company Archives is available as a large (2 MB) file in PDF format.]
Eric Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001). [Newberry Call #: HD8039. R12 V612 2001] [Other libraries]
Beth Tompkins Bates, Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2001). [Newberry Call #:HD8039. R362 V63 2001] [Other libraries]
Elizabeth Packard, Great Disclosure of Spiritual Wickedness!! In High Places with an Appeal to the Government to Protect the Inalienable Rights of Married Women (Boston: The Authoress, 1865).
Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligation of Citizenship (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999). [Not in the Newberry collections. Try other libraries.]
Ernest Riebe, Mr. Block: Twenty-four IWW Cartoons (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1984). [Newberry Call #:Case Z285. K47 R54 1984]
Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, eds., Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (London and New York: Verso, 2005). [Not in the Newberry collections. Try other libraries.]
Fred Thompson, ed., The I.W.W., Its First Fifty Years, 1905-1955 (Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1955). [Newberry Call #: HD8055. I5 T5] [Other libraries]
Donald E. Winters, Jr., The Soul of the Wobblies : The I.W.W., Religion, and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1905-1917 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985). [Newberry Call #: HD8055.I5 W56 1985] [Other libraries]
Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas, Deborah Shaffer, eds., Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW (Chicago: Lake View Press, c1985). [Newberry Call #: HD8055. I4 B57 1985] [Other libraries]
Barrie Stavis and Frank Harmon, eds., The Songs of Joe Hill (New York: Oak Publication [1963, c1960]). [Newberry Call #: 4A 2388] [Other libraries]
Harold R. Heaton Political Cartoons—Sixty original political and editorial cartoons by Harold R. Heaton for the Chicago newspaper Inter-Ocean, drawn between 1909 and circa 1913. [Newberry Call #: Midwest MS Heaton]
John Fischetti Papers—1,120 original political cartoons by John Fischetti, mainly covering national and international issues concentrated during the Nixon and Carter presidencies, plus clippings, photos and other memorabilia reflecting his life. [Newberry Call #: Midwest MS Fischetti]
John T. McCutcheon Papers [Newberry Call #: Midwest MS McCutcheon]
Herman Raster Papers—Correspondence, clippings, and drafts of writings of Hermann Raster, editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. A German immigrant “Forty-Eighter,” Raster swayed German popular opinion through his anti-slavery, pro-Union, and anti-temperance articles, and held considerable influence over Chicago politics.
Horatio Seymour Papers—Correspondence, writings, clippings and memorabilia of Horatio Winslow Seymour, editor and editorial writer for the Chicago Times, Chicago Herald, Chicago Chronicle, and New York World. An active Democrat, Seymour wrote editorials attacking the protectionist policies of the Republican Party and a book promoting free trade and democracy.
Carlos Montezuma Papers—Mostly correspondence, but also writings, miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, clippings and photographs relating to Indian rights activist and physician Carlos Montezuma of Arizona and Chicago.
Pullman Company Archives [The Guide to the Pullman Company Archives is available as a large (2 MB) file in PDF format.]
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Archives [There is more information available on railroad archives at the Newberry.]
Susan Hirsch, After The Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003). [Newberry Call #: HD8072.5 H57 2003] [Other libraries]
Walter Licht, Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983). [Newberry Call #: HD8039 .R12 U648 1983] [Other libraries]
Eric Arnesen, Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001). [Newberry Call #: HD8039 .R12 U612 2001] [Other libraries]
Mary Field Parton—Clarence Darrow Papers
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Papers
Arthur and Lila Weinberg, Clarence Darrow, A Sentimental Rebel (New York: Putman, 1980). [Other libraries]
International Socialist Review[Newberry Call #: J2617 .422]
Arthur Einhorn Mohawk Research Collection, 1974-1980
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Red Power: The American Indians’ Fight for Freedom (New York: American Heritage Press, 1971). [Newberry Call #: Ayer E93. J67] [Other libraries]
Kenneth R. Philp, ed., Indian Self-Rule: First-hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan (Salt Lake City, Utah: Howe Bros., 1986), 228-250. [Newberry Call #: Ayer E93. I466 1986] [Other libraries]
Douglas Wixson, Worker-Writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994). [Newberry Call #: Case PS3505 .053 Z95 1994] [Other libraries]
Jerre Mangione, The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943 (New York: Avon, 1972) [Newberry Call #: 5A .6697] [Other libraries]
Roger Bruns, The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987). [Newberry Call #: HN80. CS B76 1987] [Other libraries]
The Dill Pickler[Newberry Call #: Case AS .281 (volumes 1-3)]
Sherwood Anderson, Jack Jones—“The Pickler” (Chicago, 1919) [Newberry Call #: Case Broadside 14]
Allen Ruff, “We Called Each Other Comrade”: Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997). [Newberry Call #: Wing Z473. C455 R84 1997] [Other libraries]
Speech of John Hossack, convicted of a violation of the Fugitive slave law, before Judge Drummond, of the United States District Court, Chicago, Ill. (New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860). [Newberry Call #: H5833. 422]
John Hossack, Report of the Trial of John Hossack, indicted for rescuing a fugitive slave from the U.S. Deputy Marshal, at Ottawa, Oct. 20, 1859. Phonographically reported, including the evidence, argument of counsel & charge of the court. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Honorable Thomas Drummond, Judge. February Term, 1860. R. R. Hitt, Reporter. [Full text and page images available online through the Library of Congress.] [Newberry Call #: Case H 5833 .421]
David W. Blight, ed., Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004). [Not in the Newberry collections. Try other libraries.]
Caroline Hill, Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping (Chicago: Millar Pub. Co. [1938]) [Newberry Call #: E5. M152]
Citizens' Association of Chicago Committee on Theatres and Public Halls, Report of the Committee on Theatres and Public Halls of the Citizens' Association of Chicago (Chicago, 1882-87). [Newberry Call #: J7896. 16]
Maureen Flanagan, “The City Profitable, the City Livable: Environmental Policy, Gender, and Power in Chicago in the 1910s,” Journal of Urban History 22 (Jan. 1996): 163-190. [Newberry Call #: HT111. J68, volume 22]
Andrew Hurley, Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1995). [Not in the Newberry collections. Try other libraries.]
Sylvia Hood Washington, Packing Them In: An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954 (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005). [Not in the Newberry collections. Try other libraries.]
The Chicago Martyrs: The Famous Speeches of the Eight Anarchists in Judge Gary's Court, October 7, 8, 9, 1886 (San Francisco: Free Society, 1899). [Newberry Call #: K684 .0343] [Other libraries]
Dave Roediger and Franklin Rosemont , eds., Haymarket Scrapbook (Chicago: C. H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986). [Newberry Call #: folio HX846. C4 H39 1986] [Other libraries]
Edwin Rose, Indian Campaign of 1832: Map of the Country [Newberry Call #: Vault Ruggles 408]
John Wakefield, History of the War Between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations of Indians (Jacksonville, Ill: Calvin Goudy, 1834). [Newberry Call #: Vault Ruggles 358]
Benjamin Drake, The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: With Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War (Cincinnati: G. Conclin, 1838). [Newberry Call #: Ayer 251. 52571 B6 D7 1838]
Ellen M. Whitney, ed., The Black Hawk War, 1831-1832 (Springfield, Illinois State Historical Library, 1970-1978). [Newberry Call #: F896. 443, volumes 35-38]
Donald Jackson, ed., Black Hawk: An Autobiography (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990). [Newberry Call #: Ayera E83. 83 .B635 1990]
Alice Hamilton, Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D. (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1943). [Newberry Call #: E5. H1818544] [Other libraries]
Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton, A Life in Letters (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984). [Newberry Call #: R154. H238 553 1984] [Other libraries]
Christopher Sellers, Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (Chapel Hill, UNC Press, 1999) [Not in the Newberry collections. Try other libraries.]
Suellen Hoy, Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). [Newberry Call #: RA780. H59 1995] [Other libraries]
Martin Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). [Newberry Call #: TD223. M45 2000] [Other libraries]
Steven M. Buechler, The Transformation of the Woman Suffrage Movement: The Case of Illinois, 1850-1920 (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1986). [Newberry Call #: JK1911. I3 B84 1986] [Other libraries]
Patricia A. Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001). [Newberry Call #: E185. 97 .W55 534 2001] [Other libraries]
Ellen DuBois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978). [Newberry Call #: HQ1423 .D8] [Other libraries]
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995). [Newberry Call #: HQ1413. K45 5581995][Other libraries]
Fanny Butcher Papers
Carlo Rotella, “Chicago Literary Renaissance,” in the Encyclopedia of Chicago, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Dale Kramer, Chicago Renaissance: The Literary Life in the Midwest, 1900-1930 (New York: Appleton-Century, 1966). [Newberry Call #: Case 6A 189 orRef PS221. K67][Other libraries]
John Lauritsen, The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935) (New York: Times Change Press, 1974). [Newberry Call #: HQ76.5 .L38] [Other libraries]
Chad C. Heap, Homosexuality in the City: A Century of Research at the University of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2000). [Newberry Call #: HQ76.3 .U52 I445 2000]
John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). [Newberry Call #: HQ18. U5 D451997][Other libraries]
William Jennings Bryan, Speeches During the Campaign of 1896 [newspaper clippings] [Newberry Call #: J5835 .1238]
William Jennings Bryan, Speeches of William Jennings Bryan (New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909). [Newberry Call #: J5835 .1239, volumes 1-2] [Other libraries]
Robert W. Cherny, A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985). [Newberry Call #: E664. B87 C47 1985] [Other libraries]
The Anvil[Newberry Call #: Case A5. 068]
The Commons: a monthly record devoted to aspects of life and labor from the social settlement point of view.[Newberry Call #: I318 .159]
Harpers Weekly, 1857-1916 [Newberry Call #: folio A5.392]
Frank Leslie’s Monthly, (later American Magazine), 1876-1913 [Newberry Call #: A5.0375]
Earth[Newberry Call #: A5. 287]
Puck, 1877-1918 [Newberry Call #: folio A5.7634]
International Socialist Review[Newberry Call #: J217 .422]
Workingman’s Advocate [Newberry Call #: Microfilm 609]
The New Majority (Chicago Federation of Labor) [Newberry Call #: Case oversize HD6500 .N5]
The Messenger (Newberry Call #: Case Pullman 06/01/04 box 17 folders 456-488)
The Workers Monthly (Chicago, Ill. : Daily Worker Society, 1924-1927) [Newberry Call #: J2617 .235]
Chicago Defender[Newberry Call #: Local History Ref Microfilm 1310 (1909-1950 only)]
Gem of the Prairie (Chicago: J.S. Beach & K. K. Jones, 1844-1852) (Temperance) [Newberry Call #: Case A6. 16097]
Reporter: The Official Monthly Organ of Chicago Typographical Union Number Sixteen. [Newberry Call #: Wing folio Z119. C52]
The Communist (Chicago: Workers Communist Party, [1927]-1944) [Newberry Call #: J2617. 235]
The Socialist Woman (Chicago: Socialist Woman Pub. Co., 1907-1909). [Newberry Call #: J2617. 228]
Additional research ideas may be provided by browsing lists of Newberry Library American manuscript collections relating to social action, journalism, arts, and literature.
Making of
America, Cornell University (free)
Cornell University provides digital access to more than 100 monographs
and 22 19th-century journals on this web site. Most of the material
ranges from 1840-1900, and focuses on American social history.
Making of
America, University of Michigan (free)
The University of Michigan has digitized approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. Most of the material dates from the period 1850-1877. Like Cornells site, the Michigan site focuses on American social history.
Chicago Tribune Database (1890-1985, with some earlier coverage) This is a subscription database. It can be used only on computers within the Newberry Library, or at other institutions that subscribe to this database. The database offers full-text access to the Chicago Tribune, including access to advertisements and illustrations.