In the United States, Chicago provided Socialism with a soapbox for firebrand speechmaking, a home for political exiles and a springboard for activism. When Josephine Conger-Kaneko began printing The Socialist Woman in 1909 and then ran for alderwoman in
Author Biography
Joseph Anthony Rulli is a transplanted Hoosier, living in Chicago since the fall of 2006. He has taught social studies, religion, philosophy and history at the high school level in Indiana. He began writing as a career upon his arrival to his second city and has had three short stories published: "The Meating" (New Stone Circle, 2009), "Delayed" (Echo Ink Review, 2009) and "With This Ring" (Over the Edge: The Edgy Writers Anthology, 2017); a stage play, Let Me Just Say This, performed in 2016; an electronic tour book, The Working Class Smells...So Do Roses, published online in 2014; and The Chicago Haymarket Affair (The History Press/Arcadia Publishing, 2016). He has written a regular column and cultural reviews for the Chicago Grid and Picture This Post. This work is his second book with The History Press/Arcadia Publishing.
