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"Out of the Flames" and Other Songs of the Great Fire

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | May 27th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

Dedicated to Miss Kate Brewster (haven't a clue) Words and Lyrics by S. Bissell Published in Pittsburgh: Bissell & Mink, 1872 Lyrics: Where, oh where’s our little Nell? My heart is full of grief; Will not some sweet angel tell And give my heart r read more

The Yellowed Pages: Old Chicago City Directories

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | May 7th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

The first Chicago City Directory was published in 1839 when the city was just 2 years old. The earliest directory I have found on the Internet, however, is for 1843 published by Ellis and Fergus, Printers, in 1844 when the city was boasting a populat read more

Help! Police!: The Call Box

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | May 6th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

In the 1987 Prohibition era film "The Untouchables", veteran policeman Jimmy Malone (played by Sean Connery) has a gold chain. On that chain are two of his most important possessions: a St Jude Medal and his Chicago Police Call box key. Here's a loo read more

Shared Chicago Visions: Henry Blake Fuller and Lorado Taft

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | April 8th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

Just three days after the start of the Great Chicago Fire on October 8, 1871, Joseph Medill’s editorial in the Chicago Tribune triumphantly proclaimed, “CHICAGO SHALL RISE AGAIN.” (Chicago Days, 39). Putting its grief aside, Chicago rolled up i read more

The First Art Exhibition in Chicago

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | March 18th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

"In the spring of 1859 the Chicago Tribune announced people had cause for "pride - in our young city" striking down the thought that Chicago was "entirely devoid of all taste and culture in art." In The Daily Chicago Times the stir was well summarize read more

Walking With Women Through Chicago History

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | March 7th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

There are Chicago guidebooks galore, but only two, that I'm aware of, focus on Chicago women's history.Walking with Women Through Chicago History: 4 Self-Guided Tours by Marilyn A. Domer, Jean S. Hunt, Mary Ann Johnson, Adade M. Wheeler, and edited b read more

A Life of Strength and Conviction: Ida B. Wells

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | March 6th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Crusader for Justice is profiled on Scandalous Women. Wells was a great Chicago woman, social advocate, writer, editor and teacher, and I can't think of a better way to kick of Women's History Month. "Long before Rosa Parks refu read more

The Wigwam

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | March 2nd 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

Want to take a break from the current crop of Presidential circuses? Make that "Presidential caucuses..."Chicago has held more political conventions than any other city in the nation; from 1860 to 2004, twenty-five political "parties" (pun intended) read more

Academic Book Review - Take Deux

Wig-Wags | February 17th 2008 by Rene Tyree

Wasn’t it Albert Einstein who said, Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. If true, I am shipwrecked on the rocks and the gods are laughing at my first academic boo read more

If you wrote history in the early 19th century….

Wig-Wags | February 16th 2008 by Rene Tyree

Russel Nye (1913-1993) provides a glimpse of what was expected of you if you wrote history in the early 19th century in his Pulitzer Prize winning biography of George Bancroft (1800-1891). I thought it worth sharing in that some of my readers are t read more

The Women's Building Library at the Columbian Exposition

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | January 26th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

Rutgers University "Seminar in the History of the Book" will feature a program titled, "A Cultural History of the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition" on February 21st. Melodie Fox, Associate Dean of Instruction at Bryant & Stratt read more

The Sisterhood of Working Women

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | January 17th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

I've been doing some more work on my paper pertaining to Chicago's working women of the late 19th and early 20th century. What has become more and more apparent is the common bond that women today have with their historical counterparts.In Women in 1 read more

The Whitechapel Club: An Unusual Group of Early Chicago Journalis…

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | January 8th 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

Yesterday happened to be my birthday, so I thought I would take it kind of easy; just do a little surfing to see what turned up. I decided to Google "Chicago Quotes" and I ran across this interesting snippet on The Local Tourist:"Then stand to your g read more

Cooking Up a Happy New Year

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | January 1st 2008 by ChicagoBookBabe

"Hordes of men and boys trudged along the pavements blowing horns and shouting through megaphones. The fakers sold out their stocks of horns before the new century was born. Everywhere the New Year's greeting of friend to friend was not an exchange o read more

Sweet Home Chicago

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | December 27th 2007 by ChicagoBookBabe

A Small House with "Lots of Room in It' By Frank Lloyd Wright NINTH DESIGN IN THE JOURNAL'S NEW SERIES OF MODEL SUBURBAN HOUSES AT MODERATE COSTTHE average home-maker is partial to the gable roof. This house has been designed with a thorough, somewh read more

A Thought on Historical Perspective

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | December 4th 2007 by ChicagoBookBabe

One of my current writing projects is a paper on the effect of urbanization on women in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century. It came as a result of rereading Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and asking myself the question, “What were Car read more

Once Upon a Time in "The Loop": The Dream Merchants of State Stre…

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | November 16th 2007 by ChicagoBookBabe

Rise of a Consumer ClassThe rapid industrialization of America in the late nineteenth century “changed the nature of work and daily life and gave rise to an extensive network of corporations that integrated the country into a national economy.” ( read more

The Columbian Exposition of 1893: The View from New York

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | November 13th 2007 by ChicagoBookBabe

On February 1, 1891 The New York Times reported that "ground has been broken at last" for The Columbian Exposition. According to the reporter's observations, “things are to be done on a large scale at Chicago, whatever else may be said or thought o read more

November 11, 1887

Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian | November 10th 2007 by ChicagoBookBabe

Tomorrow marks the 120th year anniversary since Spies, Parsons, Engel, and Fischer - four of the convicted participants in the Haymarket Riot - were sent to the gallows. The Haymarket incident is important in Chicago history and in the history of the read more

Trafalgar, 21st October, 1805

Cardinal Wolsey's Today in History | October 20th 2007 by Cardinal Wolsey

Today is the 202nd anniversary of Trafalgar, perhaps the Royal Navy's greatest victory. The picture shows part of Nelson's sketch of his famous battle plan, to sail at an angle through the French and Spanish lines, rather than line up in parallel read more

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