Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman Review

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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman ReviewSmith has made perhaps a unique association between the events chronicled in his book. The 1871 Chicago Fire. The 1886 Haymarket bombing. And the making of Pullman town. His descriptions of each are well done and quite readable. For this alone, it can worthwhile to peruse his writings, as he explains the circumstances of each. Of the events, perhaps the Chicago Fire is the best remembered. While the other 2 are relegated to the scrutiny of professional historians.
I am unsure that despite his eloquent arguments, the events can be tied together as he so disposes. The presumed urban outlook shared by Americans of a century ago was shaped by many things. Maybe the events in the book were influential, but not decisive.Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman Overview

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Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 (Art Institute of Chicago) Review

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Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 (Art Institute of Chicago) ReviewI spent half a day at the Art Institute's exhibit and didn't begin to absorb it all, so extensive were the posters and information about them. (TASS did at least a poster a day for the entire war.) Fortunately, it's all in this tome of an exhibition catalog, which the book description aptly summarizes.
There are, of course, wonderful posters that caricature Hitler, but equally interesting are those that feature the Hun. Others focus on specific events, such as the blockade of Stalingrad. And as was the case in the USA, the Soviets also had their posters selling war bonds. What I'd never seen before were the posters that resembled comic strips, often with satirical statements. Whatever the poster and subject, the translation is excellent as is the explanation of its historical context. There are also sections on the stenciling process and on the TASS artists.
Interesting, too, is the story of how this exhibition came to be, a story related not only in the catalog but also in "Propaganda on Parade," an article that appeared in the Chicago Tribune, and for which I'll provide the link in the lst comment.
As for just what a treasure this book is-- A good friend of mine who has absolutely no interest in art but loves WWII history borrowed it for a week and studied it from cover to cover. "Terrific," was his comment when he returned it. If you are interested in this exhibition catalog but don't feel you can afford it at the moment, you could do as I did, which was to recommend that the local library purchase it. It is, after all, an important publication for both art and history.
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America Review

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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America ReviewThis book by James Green is great narrative history about maybe the most important event in the history of the U.S. working class. The characters are well drawn, the context is laid out nicely and the analysis is first rate. It is a sophisticated study without resorting to academic jargon. I normally don't write many reviews, but I had to when I saw that only two had been written so far. I really doubt that a better work of American history will be written this year. James Green is definitely a historian to watch.Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America Overview

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