Haymarket Affair: References & Edit History
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Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy (1984), is a detailed scholarly study. James R. Green, Death in the Haymarket (2006), discusses the riot and the early labour movement in Chicago in the context of that city’s extreme class divisions. Franklin Rosemont, David Roediger, and Peter Linebaugh (eds.), Haymarket Scrapbook: 25th Anniversary Edition (2011; originally published 1986), is a comprehensive collection of speeches, broadsides, handbills, essays, eyewitness accounts, poems, and other documents. Timothy Messer-Kruse, The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks (2012), alleges that the riot was the culmination of a plot by anarchists to attack the police.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Northern Illinois University - Digital Library - The Haymarket Bomb in Historical Context. | Nov 01, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Apr 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: DigitalCommons at COD - The Significance of the Haymarket Tragedy Then and Now (PDF). | Jan 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - The Haymarket Riot Remembered. | Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - In Our Time - The Haymarket Affair. | Feb 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Haymarket Tragedy (PDF). | Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Haymarket Affair, 1886. | Oct 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Michigan Tech - Military History of the Upper Great Lakes - Haymarket Affair. | Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Experience - The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident. | Feb 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Illinois Labor History Society - The Haymarket Affair. | Aug 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University at Albany - The Dramas of Haymarket. | Jun 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Northern Illinois University - Digital Library - The Haymarket Bomb in Historical Context. | Apr 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Trials - Haymarket Trial (1886). | Jan 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Chicago - Haymarket and May Day. | Mar 07, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Haymarket Riot. | Dec 02, 2019 | ||
| Changed article title from "Haymarket Riot" to "Haymarket Affair." | Nov 18, 2019 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Sep 23, 2019 | ||
| Cross-references to various articles added. | Sep 23, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 25, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Haymarket Square Riot. | Apr 11, 2014 | ||
| Added images of a broadside announcing the meeting and an engraving depicting the riot. | Apr 13, 2011 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 13, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Haymarket Riot. | Nov 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Famous Trials - The Haymarket Riot Trial. | Aug 30, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Famous Trials - The Haymarket Riot Trial. | Aug 30, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University - The Dramas of Haymarket. | Aug 07, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Chicago History Museum - The Dramas of Haymarket. | Jul 10, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | May 25, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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