The World’s Columbian Exposition

The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893

 

 

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Addams, Jane

 

Jane Addams:  Novel Prize winner and founder of Hull House

B Ad21h

Jane Addams and Hull House

B Ad21k

Rabble Rousers:  20 women who made a difference

305.4 H222

 

 

Anthony, Susan B.

 

Susan B. Anthony:  voice for women’s voting rights

B An8k

Women’s Suffrage:  a primary source history of the women’s rights movement in America

305.4 Ad1

Mother, Aunt Susan and Me                                                                                       

920.7 J15

 

 

Armstrong, Samuel [educator]

 

 

 

Barton, Clara

 

Clara Barton:  healing the wounds                                                                              

B B28d

Clara Barton                                                                                                               

B B28h

Clara Barton:  Civil War nurse                                                                        

B B28w

 

 

Bates, Katherine Lee [poet]

 

 

 

Bingham, Hiram

 

Hiram Bingham and the Dream of Gold                                                                     

985 C66

 

 

Black Elk

 

Black Elk Speaks:  being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux                 

B 562

Black Elk:  Native American man of spirit                                                                 

970.3 Sh2

We Rode the Wind:  recollections of nineteenth-century tribal life                             

970.1 W37

 

 

Blackwell, Elizabeth

 

Elizabeth Blackwell: first woman physician                                                               

B B56bi

Dr. Elizabeth:  the story of the first woman doctor                                                     

B B56c

 

 

Bly, Nellie

 

Making Headlines: a biography of Nellie Bly                                                 

B B624

Nellie Bly:  daredevil reporter                                                                         

B B624f

 

 

Britton, Mary E. [physician]

 

 

 

Burleigh, Harry T.

 

The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh: Low Voice                                                         

782.25 B92

 

 

Burnham, Daniel Hudson [architect]

 

 

 

Cannon, Annie Jump [astronomer]

 

 

 

Carnegie, Andrew

 

The Many Lives of Andrew Carnegie                                                             

B C21m

 

 

Cassat, Mary

 

Mary Cassatt:  an artist’s life                                                                                       

B C272p

 

 

Chief Joseph

 

Chief Joseph: thunder rolling down from the mountains                                            

B J77y

Saga of Chief Joseph                                                                                                  

B J77h

Chief Joseph's Own Story                                                                                           

B J77

Indian Patriots of the Great West                                                                    

970.1 W36

 

 

Chopin, Kate

 

Keeping secrets: the girlhood diaries of seven women writers                                    

818 L99

Unveiling Kate Chopin                                                                                               

B C455t

 

 

Cleveland, Grover

 

Grover Cleveland                                                                                                       

B C59m

How to Draw the Life and Times of Grover Cleveland                                            

B C596t

Grover Cleveland: twenty-second and twenty-fourth president, 1885-1889, 1893-1897    

B C596

 

 

Cody, Buffalo Bill

 

Buffalo Bill Cody: Western legend                                                                           

B C64sp

Buffalo Bill Cody                                                                                                      

B C 64g

 

 

Debs, Eugene

 

Legendary Labor Leaders                                                                              

331.88Str8

Peace Heroes in Twentieth-century America                                                             

327.17 P31

The Unpopular Ones                                                                                                  

920 Ar2

 

 

Dewey, John

 

John Dewey: the founder of American liberalism                           

B D512

 

 

Douglass, Frederick

 

Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist and Author                                                            

B D743L

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave (CD)                   

SC130

Frederick Douglass: in his own words                                                                       

305.8D74

Frederick Douglass: the Black Lion                                                                          

B D743

 

 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

 

African-American Poets                                                                                            

928 St8

Paul Laurence Dunbar            :  portrait of a poet                                                                 

B D913

 

 

Isadora Duncan

 

Isadora Duncan                                                                                                          

B D912

Isadora Duncan                                                                                                                                                                        

B D912k

 

 

Dvorak, Antonin

 

Dvorak in America: in search of the New World                                                      

780.9 H78

 

 

Geronimo

 

Geronimo and the struggle for Apache freedom                                                       

B G31s

Native American chiefs and warriors                                                                        

920.02 K12

Geronimo: his own story                                                                                            

B G31g

 

 

Harris, Joel Chandler

 

 

 

Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the "Cornfield Journalist”:  the tale of Joel Chandler Harris  

B H24b

Dearest Chums and Partners:  Joel Chandler Harris’s letters to his children:  a domestic biography

B H24k

 

 

Jones, Mother

 

Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights                                                     

B J72j

Mother Jones: One Woman's Fight for Labor                                                           

B J72k

Mother Jones, the Most Dangerous Woman in America

B J72

 

 

Joplin, Scott

 

The Life and Times of Scott Joplin                                                                           

B J742b

 

 

Keller, Helen

 

The World at Her Fingertips: the story of Helen Keller                                            

B K28d

Helen Keller: rebellious spirit                                                                                     

B K28La

The Story of My Life                                                                                                 

B K28

 

 

Lili`uokalani

 

Lili`uokalani                                                                                                               

HC B L62Lo

Women of Old Hawaii                                                                                              

HC 920 M87

Ku'u Ho'oilina, My Legacy: three short stories about Queen Lili'uokalani               

HC B L62c

Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders                                              

920.09 Si6

 

 

Morgan, J.P.

 

J.P. Morgan, Banker to a Growing Nation                                                                

BM824b

The Tycoons: how Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan invented the American supereconomy

923.8 M83

 

 

 

Muir, John

 

John Muir: my life with nature                                                                                 

B M89m

John Muir: wilderness protector                                                                                

B M89w

John Muir: naturalist, writer, and guardian of the North American wilderness        

B M89t

Guardians of Tomorrow: pioneers in ecology                                                            

925 H61

 

 

Riis, Jacob

 

Jacob Riis                                                                                                                   

B R442

America Through the Lens: photographers who changed the nation                        

770.9 Sa5

 

 

Rockefeller, John D.

 

John D. Rockefeller: Oil Baron and Philanthropist                                                   

B R592L

John D. Rockefeller: Anointed with Oil                                                                    

B R592s

 

 

Roosevelt, Theodore

 

Theodore Roosevelt and His America                                                                       

B R672m

Theodore Roosevelt: champion of the American spirit                                             

B R672kr

The Boyhood Diary of Theodore Roosevelt, 1869-1870:  early travels of the 26th U.S. President                                                                        

B R672r

Theodore Roosevelt: letters from a young coal miner                       

F Armstrong

Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt!                                                                              

B R672fr

 

 

Sewell, Anna

 

Dark Horse: a life of Anna Sewell                                                                             

B Se8

 

 

Sousa, John Phillip

 

The Life and Times of John Philip Sousa                                                                  

B So8z

 

 

Sullivan, Louis

 

The Early Louis Sullivan: building photographs                                                        

720.973 T21

 

 

Twain, Mark

 

A Brilliant streak: the Making of Mark Twain                                                          

B C59La

The Trouble Begins at 8: a life of Mark Twain in the wild, wild, West                    

B C59fL

Tweed, William “Boss”

 

Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall                                                                                

B T91

 

 

Washington, Booker T.

 

Booker T. Washington                                                                                               

B W272n

Up from Slavery: an Autobiography                                                                                     

B W272

 

 

Whitman, Walt

 

Walt Whitman: a biography                                                                                       

811 W59m

Walt Whitman                                                                                                            

B W59r

 

 

Wright, Frank Lloyd

 

Frank Lloyd Wright                                                                                                   

B W93m

Frank Lloyd Wright                                                                                                  

B W93

Simply Wright: a journey into the ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture         

720 W39f

 

 

 

 

Chinese Immigrants

 

The Civil War to the Last Frontier, 1850-1880s                                                        

973.8 K15c

 

 

Farmers

 

Indians, cowboys, and farmers and the battle for the Great Plains, 1865-1910       

978 C69

 

 

German Immigrants

 

German Immigrants, 1820-1920                                                                                

305.8 F922

 

 

Irish Immigrants

 

Primary Sources: Immigrants in America                                                                  

304.8P932

So Far from Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl                

F Denenberg

An Album of the Irish Americans                                                                            

305.8 M95

 

 

Japanese Immigrants

 

Japanese Immigrants                                                                                                  

304.8 In4

 

 

Jewish Immigrants

 

Dreams in the Golden Country: the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl                                                                                                                 

F Lasky

 

 

Mine Workers

 

Theodore Roosevelt: letters from a young coal miner                                               

F Armstrong

The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: a Chinese miner                                                

F Yep

Growing up in Coal Country                                                                                     

331.3 B28

 

 

Railroad Workers

 

The Journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad Worker                          

F Durbin

Loggers and Railroad Workers                                                                                  

338.7 W73

Websites

 

Overview of the Exposition

World's Columbian Exposition 

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html

 

World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/WCE/title.html

 

eCUIP : The Digital Library : Social Studies : The Columbian Exposition

http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/social/worldsfair_1893/index.html

 

History Files - The World's Columbian Exhibition

http://www.chicagohistory.org/history/expo.html

 

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~shancock/fair/1893.html

 

World's Columbian Exposition - Chicago World's Fair

http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/columbian.html

 

 

Images

 

1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/1893fair.html

 

 

People

 

Armstrong, Samuel C.

http://www.answers.com/topic/samuel-turell-armstrong

 

Bates, Katherine Lee

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1238.htm

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_bates_katharine_lee.htm

 

Britton, Mary E.

http://www.kytales.com/mbritt/mbritt.html

http://kchr.ky.gov/about/gallergreatblack.htm?&pageOrder=0&selectedPic=36

 

 

 

Burleigh, Harry

http://www.answers.com/topic/harry-burleigh

 

Burnham, Daniel Hudson

http://www.answers.com/topic/daniel-burnham

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/daniel-hudson-burnham/

 

Cannon, Annie Jump

http://library.thinkquest.org/J001780/annie_jump_cannon-_biograp.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/annie-jump-cannon

 

Chopin, Kate

http://www.angelfire.com/nv/English243/Chopin.html

 

Cody, Buffalo Bill

http://www.buffalobill.org/

 

Dewey, John

http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/dewey.htm

 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sgo/texts/dunbar2.html

 

Harris, Joel Chandler

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwelf/elfjch.html

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-525

 

Pullman, George

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_pullman.html

      

Riss, Jacob

http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/jriis.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Davis/photography/riis/riis.html

 

Sullivan, Louis

http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/Architects/Sullivan.html

 

 

 

Chinese immigrants

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/chinese-boycott/

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/asian_voices/asian_voices.cfm

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.html

 

Farmers/Farming

http://www.lhf.org/cgi-bin/gygsite.pl?2~0

 

German Immigrants

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/German.html

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/german4.html

 

Irish Immigrants

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Irish.html

 

Jewish Immigrants

http://www.chicagotribute.org/Markers/Solomon.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Jewish.html

 

Mine Workers

http://www.answers.com/topic/united-mine-workers

 

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