History

From Sea to Shining Sea puts you on the right track. Each title is your ticket for a tour of one of the states or territories of the United States.

A humanitarian concern we are doing something about.

Illustrated with over 250 black-and-white and color illustrations from this fascinating period, Chicago: The Glamour Years provides a unique panorama of those turbulent decades in an American city like no other-from gangsters and gun molls to operas and opulence. It is a book that brings that wonderful era back to life for the reader.

This book is a companion piece to an exhibition created by the Chicago Architecture Foundation to explore the legacy of the Chicago Bungalow. Both the book and exhibition interpret the architecture of the bungalow and its social history. It is part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation's ongoing work of celebrating and educating the public about the city's great architectural tradition.

A brief history of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, inspired by the politics surrounding the Occupy protests and its relationship with policing.

Bulletin updating members of the Chicago-based international labor union the Industrial Workers of the World on matters of internal organization and finance in 2014.

Craft Beer enthusiast zine published by Bridgeport's own beer magnate Ed Marszewski of Maria's Packaged Goods. Articles detailing beer concerns local and international, past and present.

Collection of various first-hand accounts and documents from the underground abortion service known as Jane, from 1968 until the legalization of abortion in 1973.

1999 re-printing of a political text originally written by an anonymous "Uncontrollable" of the Iron Column during the Spanish Civil war, as described in the zine. The article was published in March 1937 in "Nosotros," the daily newspaper of the Iron Column in Valencia.

From dust jacket:" Studs Terkel:A Life In Words is the story of a broadcasting and writing phenomenon and represents the remarkable result of a sequence of meetings between the two supreme masters of the tape-recorded interview, America's Studs Terkel and Britain's Tony Parker. For forty years, Studs Terkel's daily radio talk show, based in Chicago, has won him national recognition. His best-selling books including Hard Times, Working, and his Pulitzer-prize winner "The Good War" are classics of oral history and have brought him international fame."