These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the Chicago Metro History Fair (formerly CMHEC) NHD 2017 theme-related topic ideas. The links lead to resources from the Primary Source Nexus and the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted. Note: U.S. historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922 unless otherwise noted.
WW1 and the IWW, One Big Union: The IWW
- Industrial Workers of the World primary source set
- Industrial Workers of the World historic newspaper coverage
- IWW Historical Archives Industrial Workers of the World
- I.W.W. war historic newspaper coverage
- World War I primary & secondary sources + learning resources
Copperheads
- Copperheads Illinois primary source set
- Copperheads Illinois historic newspaper coverage
- Copperheads Chicago historic newspaper covearge
- Copperheads primary source set
Illinois Regiments in Civil War
Black regiments in World War One and Two
- World War I
- World War II
- Tuskegee Airmen primary sources
- Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site National Park Service
- Chicago “DODO” Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen
- Chicago and the Tuskegee Airmen Chicago Tribune January 19, 2015
Ben Hecht and Saving the Jews of Europe
- Ben Hecht portraits
- Ben Hecht historic newspaper coverage
- Ben Hecht: The Mike Wallace Interview (transcript) 2/15/58 Harry Ransom Center
- Ben Hecht bio United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Black Hawk against Conquest
- Battle of Bad Axe print 1857
- Indian wars of the West 1833
- Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk, and scenes in the West: a national poem in six cantos 1849
- Scenes and adventures in the army: or, Romance of military life 1859
- The good old times in McLean County, Illinois: containing two hundred and sixty-one sketches of old settlers, a complete historical sketch of the Black Hawk war and descriptions of all matters of interest relating to McLean County 1874
- Early times at Fort Winnebago, and Black Hawk War reminiscences 1879
- Record of the services of Illinois soldiers in the Black Hawk war, 1831-32, and in the Mexican war, 1846-8 1882
- How George Rogers Clark won the Northwest, and other essays in western history 1903
- Black Hawk War historic newspaper coverage
For the Union: Medill
- Joseph Medill primary sources
- Joseph Medill historic newspaper coverage through 1899
- The Journalists: Joseph Medill (1823-1899) Mr. Lincoln & Friends The Lehrman Institute
- Dynasts of the Daily Press New York Times October 13, 2011
Women Workers WTUL, Women’s Trade Union League, Agnes Nestor
- Women’s Trade Union League primary source set
- Women’s Trade Union League (Chicago) historic newspaper coverage
- Women’s Trade Union Seal
- More Women’s Trade Union League images
- Working Women: The Women’s Trade Union League National Women’s History Museum
- Agnes Nestor portrait
- Agnes Nestor historic newspaper coverage
Pullman Strike
- Pullman Strike background information Encyclopedia of Chicago
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1894 personal narrative
- Pullman strike 1894 historical newspaper coverage
- Collection connections: the Pullman Strike
- “Report on the Chicago strike of June-July, 1894” by the United States Strike Commission 1894
- The insurrection of June and July 1894, growing out of the Pullman strike at Chicago, Ill. 1894
- The government in the Chicago strike of 1894 by Grover Cleveland 1913
- Pullman strike image set
- The town of Pullman, Illinois–the homes and wages of the Pullman operatives
- Pullman Industrial ComplexPullman Porters – Topics in Chronicling America
- Historic newspaper coverage: Pullman town
Ellen Gates Starr
- Ellen Gates Starr portrait
- Ellen Gates Starr historic newspaper coverage
- Today in History: Jane Addams & Hull House background & primary sources
Florence Kelley
- Florence Kelley primary sources
- Florence Kelley historic newspaper coverage
- Florence Kelley bio Women Working 1800-1930 Harvard University
- Today in History: Jane Addams & Hull House background & primary sources
John Fitzpatrick & the Chicago Federation of Labor
- John Fitzpatrick portrait
- John Fitzpatrick historic newspaper coverage
- John Fitzpatrick testimony Commission on Industrial Relations Final Report and Testimony Submitted to Congress 1916
- John Fitzpatrick and the CFL Encyclopedia of Chicago
- Chicago Federation of Labor history CFL website
- Chicago Federation of Labor Encyclopedia of Chicago
Steel strike 1919
- Steel strike 1919 primary source set
- Steel strike historic newspaper coverage 1919-20
- “I Witnessed the Steel Strike”: Joe Rudiak Remembers the 1919 Strike History Matters
- Chapter 24 – The Steel Strike of 1919 The Autobiography of Mother Jones Industrial Workers of the World website
- Steel strike Chicago historic newspaper coverage 1919-20
- Chicago Tribune 1919 steel strike newspaper articles Chicago Tribune Archives
CIO and Chicago’s Organizing Drives
- George A. Patterson, C.I.O. Organizer from Chicago photo
- “We’re going to keep this plant open whether you like it or not”, Chicago Police told John B. Riffe, C.I.O. organizer photo
- Learning from the Source: Chicago Meatpackers & the Unions see interview excerpts from Jesse Perez and Jim Cole
- Unionization Encyclopedia of Chicago
More NHD 2017 CMHEC topic ideas (Illinois / Chicago focus)
NHD 2017 topic ideas (U.S., European, & World History)
NHD 2017: Selecting a Topic for a History Project
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