March 4, 2009              to syllabus Paper Topic Instructions and Options

History 350: American Radicalism

I. Union organizations:
        A. Knights of Labor
        B. American Federation of Labor

II. 1877: Revolt on the Railroads Website on the 1877 strikes Baltimore, Maryland strike exhibit

III. Haymarket and the First American Red Scare
(Link to site on Haymarket) (Link to "Famous Trials" Site on Haymarket)
(Link to "The Dramas of Haymarket" site) 

    A. Anarchism and Marxism in Gilded Age America
(Link to mega-site on anarchist history/theory)

    B. Chicago and Its Workers

IV. What Happened at Haymarket?
    A. May Day Demonstrations and Protests   

    B. McCormick Reaper Works--Police kill two protesters, May 3, 1886

    C. Anarchists Call a Protest Meeting--the "Revenge Circular"

    D. The Meeting and the Bomb--May 4, 1886

    E. Who Did It?

Terence Powderly, Knights of Labor                      Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor

Railroad Power Threatens American Workers, 1877

1877 Strike Scenes from Popular Magazine