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Haymarket Riot – Bibliography Haymarket Riot – Bibliography Published Collection Abrams, Irving S. Haymarket Heritage: the memoirs of Irving S. Abrams. Chicago: Kerr Pub. Co., 1989. Book. (F896.3 A161) Adelman, William J. Haymarket revisited: a tour guide of labor history sites and ethnic neighborhoods connected with the Haymarket affair. Chicago: Illinois Labor History Society, 1976. Book. (F896 C53 A229h) Altgeld, John P. Gov. Altgeld’s pardon... New York: New York Labor News Co., 1894. Book. (JJ S678g) Altgeld, John P. Reasons for pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab. Chicago, 1893. Book. (JJ A466) Andrews, Clarence A. Chicago in story: a literary history. Iowa City: Midwest Heritage Pub. Co., 1982. Book. (ZY896 C53 A565c p.45) Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Book. (F896 C53.16 A963h) Bennett, Fremont O. Politics and politicians of Chicago, Cook county, and Illinois. Memorial volume, 1787-1887. A complete record of municipal, county, state and national politics from the earliest period to the present time. And an account of the Haymarket massacre of May 4, 1886, and the anarchist trials. Chicago: Blakely Printing Co., 1886. Book. (F896 C53.61 B471p) Calmer, Alan. Labor agitator, the story of Albert R. Parsons. New York: International Publishers, 1937. Book. (F896.3 P2695c) Chicago Historical Society. Haymarket 1886!: April 27-December 31, 1986, Chicago Historical Society: checklist of the exhibition. Chicago: The Society, 1986. Book. (F896 C53.6 H673h 1986) David, Henry. The history of the Haymarket affair; a study in the American social- revolutionary and labor movements. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936. Book. (F896 C53 D249h) Fliege, Stu. Tales and trails of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Book. (F896 F621t p.107) Foner, Philip S. The autobiographies of the Haymarket martyrs. New York: Humanities Press, 1969. Book. (EZ F673a) Garlin, Sender. William Dean Howells and the Haymarket era. New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies, 1979. Book. (YA:H3 H859g) Green, James R. Death in the Haymarket: a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Book. (F896 C53 G7965d) Harris, Frank. The Bomb, a novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Book. (YF896 H314b 1963) Hermann, Charles H. Recollections of life & doings in Chicago from the Haymarket Riot to the end of World War I, by an old timer. Chicago: Normandie House, Blessing Book Stores, Inc., 1945. Book. (F896 C53 H552r) Illinois. Attorney General’s Office. August Spies et al., plaintiffs in error, vs. The people of the state of Illinois, defendants in error. Error to the Criminal court of Cook county. Brief on the facts for defendants in error. George Hunt, attorney general. Julius S. Grinnell, states attorney. George C. Ingham, of counsel. Francis W. Walker, Edmund Furthman, asst. states attorneys. Chicago: Barnard & Gunthorp, law printers, 1887. Book. (KV896 S755) Illinois. Governor(1893-1897: Altgeld). Reasons for pardoning Fielden, Neebe & Schwab, the Haymarkey anarchists. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986. Book. (JJ A466 1986) Illinois Labor History Society. Commemoration ceremony of the Haymarket Square incident, Sunday, May 2, 1971 ... Forest Home (Waldheim) cemetery German section [program.] Chicago: 1971. Book. (F896.9 L123c) Jennings, George. [Historic Illinois : a series of radio scripts on people, places and events in Illinois history, given over radio station WILL, Feb. 6-June 4, 1940 / written by George Jennings and sponsored by the Illinois State Historical Library]. Illinois: WILL(?), 1940. Book. (F896 J54h vol. 2, script no. 17) Kebabian, John S. The Haymarket Affair and the trial of the Chicago anarchists, 1886. Original manuscripts, letters, articles, and printed material of the anarchists and of the State prosecutor, Julius S. Grinnell. New York: H.P. Kraus, 1970. Book. (JJ K25h) Lum, Dyer D. A concise history of the great trial of the Chicago anarchists in 1886. Condensed from the official record. Chicago: Socialist Pub. Society, 1886. Book. (F896 C53 L957c) McLean, George N. The rise and fall of anarchy in America. From its incipient stage to the first bomb thrown in Chicago. A comprehensive account of the great conspiracy culminating in the Haymarket massacre, May 4th, 1886 ... the apprehension, trail, conviction and execution of the leading conspirators. Chicago, Philadelphia: R.G. Badoux & Co., 1888. Book. (F896 C53 M163r) Parsons, Albert R. The great anarchist trial: the Haymarket speech as re-delivered in the Cook County Courtroom, Chicago Il. before the Honerable Judge, Jury and Spectators, Monday, Aug. 9, 1886. Chicago: Chicago Labor Press Association, 1886. Book. (HF83 P267g) Parsons, Albert R. and Lucy E. Life of Albert R. Parsons, with brief history of the labor movement in America. Chicago: L. E. Parsons, 1889. Book. (F896.3 P267p) Parsons, Lucy E. and Spies, August V.T. Famous speeches of the eight Chicago anarchists. New York: Arno Press, 1969. Book. (F896 C53.6 P267f) Phillips, Isaac N. The pardon of the anarchists. Springfield: Republican State Cultural Committee, 1896. Book. (F896.3 P559) Roediger, Dave and Frankolin Rosemont, Eds. Haymarket Scrapbook. Chicago: C.H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986. Book. (F896 C53.6 H422) Salter, William M. What shall be done with the anarchists? : a lecture before the Society for Ethical Culture of Chicago in Grand Opera House Sunday, October 23. Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1887. Book. (F896 C53.9 S177w) Schaack, Michael J. Anarchy and anarchists. A history of the Red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe. Communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed. The Chicago Haymarket conspiracy, and the detection and trial of the conspirators. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Co.; [etc.] 1889. Book. (JJ S291a) Schneirov, Richard. Labor and urban politics : class conflict and the origins of modern liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Book. (F896 C53.61 S359L p.162-182) Smith, Carl S. Urban disorder and the shape of belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Book. (F896 C53.3 S644u) Spies, August V.T. The accused and the accusers; the famous speeches of the eight Chicago anarchists in court. When asked if they had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon them. On October 7th, 8th and 9th, 1886. Chicago, Illinois. Chicago: Socialistic Pub. Society, [1886?]. Book. (JJ A172) Spies, August V.T. Anarchist case. Advance sheets of the Illinois reports: comprising pages 1 to 267, inclusive, of volume 122. Issued by Norman L. Freeman, reporter of the Supreme Court. November 6, 1887. Springfield: 1887. Book. (KV896 S755sp) Spies, August V.T. Reminiscenzen von Aug. Spies : seine Rede vor Richter Gary, sozialpolitische Abhandlungen, Briefe, Notizen / ubersetzẗ und redigirt von Albert Currlin. Chicago: Christine Spies, 1888. Book. (F896.3 S7552 German) Trumbull, M.M. The trial of the judgement. A review of the anarchist case. Chicago: Health Home Pub. Co., 1888. Book. (JJ T869t) Trumbull, M.M. Was it a fair trial? An appeal to the governor of Illinois on behalf of the condemned anarchists. Chicago: s.n., 1887. Book. (JJ T869w) Werstein, Irving. Strangled Voices; the story of the Haymarket affair. New York: Macmillan, 1969. Book. (F896 C53.6 W498s) Yellen, Samuel. American Labor Struggles. New York: S.A. Russell, 1956. Book. (HGS Y43a p.39-71) Zeisler, Ernest Bloomfield. The Haymarket Riot. Chicago: A.J. Isaacs, 1956. Book. (JJ Z47h) Zeisler, Sigmund. Reminiscences of the anarchist case. Chicago: The Chicago Literary Club, 1927. Book. (JJ Z475r) Zlotnik, Harold A. Toys of Desperation: a Haymarket mural in verse. New York: Heart of the Lakes Pub., 1987. Book. (F896 C53.6 Z82t) The Anarchist; a revolutionary review. London: 1887. (JJ.7 A533 v.1 no.9, Dec. 1887 oversize) Anarchy at an end : lives, trial and conviction of the eight Chicago anarchists ... Chicago: G.S. Baldwin, 1886. Book. (JJ A533) The Pictorial West, vol. 11, no. 11, whole number 233, November 1887. Chicago, 1887. (F896 C53.6 P611 oversize) Manuscripts Collection Chicago (Ill.) Police Department. Report on Haymarket Square Riot [facsimile], 1886. (SC 672) Ingersoll, Robert G. Letter: New York, N.Y., to Geo. A. Schilling, Chicago, Ill., 1887 Nov. 3. Oglesby, Richard J. Papers, 1846-1924. (Box) Pitner, Thomas J. Scrapbook : political men and women, 1896-1900. (BV) Schilling, George A. Papers 1876-1974. (4 boxes and 4 oversize bound volumes) Tanner, John R. Papers, 1886-1900. (SC 1518) Audio/Visual Collection Facsimile of handbill calling the original protest meeting at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886; courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. (B-587) “Attention workingmen! Great mass meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Haymarket ... to denounce the latest atrocious act of the police, the shooting of our fellow-workmen yesterday afternoon [signed] The Executive committee.” 1886 (B-6) Updated 04/13 by Jennifer Sawyer .
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