Socrates Goes to Federal Court
The Old Federal Building that once stood on the...
Category Archives: 1880-1899
History of working people in antiquity begins in Chicago
The 1887 book that introduced many people across the English-speaking...
Burnham Summons Pericles in behalf of Immigrants
In 1896, master planner and architect Daniel Burnham appealed to the...
A Boxing Odysseus Wows Crowd at Hull House
Like the famously wily Odysseus, Jane Addams often needed to think...
Political satire invokes ancient sex worker
Satirical magazine Puck published this cartoon, “Phryne before the Chicago Tribunal,”...
