Document List
DOCUMENTS for Think Aloud Session #1
The Battle of the Little Big Horn
- Map: The Battle of the Little Big Horn
- “Little Big Horn Battle,” Dictionary of American History, ed. James Truslow Adams (1942)
- General Terry’s report, June 27, 1876
- “Massacred,” Bismark Tribune, July 6, 1876
- Selections from Frederick Whittaker, A Complete Life of General George Custer (1876)
- “Curley’s Last Story,” as reported by Russell White Bear (1938)
- “Hump’s Story,” reported in Leavenworth (Kansas) Weekly Times (1881)
- Summary of Wooden Leg’s testimony (1931), by Col. W. A. Graham
- “General Custer’s Last Fight as Seen by Two Moon,” from McClure’s Magazine (1898)
- Red Horse, Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (1881)
DOCUMENTS for Think Aloud Session #2
The Haymarket Bombing
- Poster: “Attention Workingmen!”
- Handbill (or “circular”) by August Spies
- August Spies’s description of the rally at Haymarket Square
- Editorial, “The Chicago Murders,” New York Times
- Testimony from Carter Harrison, mayor of Chicago
- Editorial, New Orleans Times-Democrat
- Statement of Judge Joseph Gary, denying the motion of the convicted anarchists for a new trial
- “What is Anarchism?” by Alexander Berkmen, Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929)
- Statement of Albert Parsons to the court prior to sentencing
- Statement of defense attorney William Perkins Black
- Editorial, “The Executions,” New York Times
- “The Haymarket Bombing,” from James Ford Rhodes’ History of the United States (1919)
- “The Haymarket Tragedy,” from Alexander Berkmen, Now and After (1929)
- Selection from Paul Avrich’s The Haymarket Tragedy (1984)
- Testimony of Workingmen on Hours and Overwork (1879)
- Average Annual Earnings of Workers, 1865–1900
- Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor, 1880–1895
- Wages and Hours in the Iron and Steel Industry, 1874–1900