I'm a bit pressed for time today so, for your reading pleasure...
A little Chicago May I...(get it?)
May 1, 1893: This Day in Chicago History (World's Columbian Exposition) from A Boat Against the Current
May 1st History of International Workers' Day from glabourwriters.
Note: the cartoon above is by English artist Walter Crane, who supported the socialist movement at the turn of the century and even visited America to voice his support of the eight anarchist accused in the Haymarket Riot. See more of his beautiful work at the Working Class Movement Library.
May 1, 1867 City-wide labor strike cripples Chicago.
The History Carnival has pitched its tents at the Bay Radical. Great reading!
May 1st is a traditional Moving Day.
Which reminds me that I have to get moving on a research paper. Between The History Enthusiast's caution that: "primary sources are supposed to form the meat of the analysis, and...secondary sources are just there to provide a little context and some historiographical background" and The Pen and Spindle's Primary Source Agenda newsletter being released today (you can sign up to have it emailed), it has occurred to me that I have been going about my research all wrong. Damn! But, that is why Brad DeLong likens the Internet to an "invisible college."
2 comments:
Sharon, thanks for the mention. I have just worked through Smut's story and I love it. I will have to wake up the cats and read it to them. As always, you have a great and refreshing site and an eye for history - the type of eye that makes a great social historian.
I am trying to focus on primary sources for stories about Chicago's history. (Can't imagine where I got that idea :-)) They put a much more human face on the familiar events. The story of Smut, set in a place of suffering for both humans and animals, is one such story. Joe, of course, did not work on the line, but for the railroad, so his experience at the stockyard was different from those of many others. The book I referenced is full of such stories. Many thanks for stopping by, Heather! Always appreciated!
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