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Tells the story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. Traces the racial and class conflicts in the slaughterhouses and management's efforts to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
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A fascinating look into the mind of one of America's first serial killers, H. H. Holmes, also known as the Devil in the White City. He built a Murder Castle in Chicago with death on his mind and lured victims into secret rooms, vaults, and gas chambers. Holmes killed his business partner, Benjamin Pitezel, in Philadelphia and took his three children on a fateful cross-country trip. Includes 87 historical illustrations and photos with his birth, death...
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Overview: Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1886 bombing at Chicago's Haymarket Square, in a revised and expanded edition co-published with the Charles H. Kerr Company, this profusely illustrated anthology reproduces hundreds of original documents, speeches, posters, and handbills, as well as contributions by many of today's finest labor and radical historians focusing on Haymarket's enduring influence around the world -including the eight-hour...
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