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Hyde Park Historical Society
Hyde Park Historical Society
About Us
About The Hyde Park Historical Society
Our Mission
Our Headquarters
Our History
Timeline
People
Places
Events
Upcoming Events
Past Events
Programs
Oral History Project
Preservation
Color Hyde Park
Local History Field Trips/K-8 Curriculum Guide
Archives
Archives and Resources
Donating to our Archives
Historical Society Newsletter Archive
Book Club Archives
Hyde Park Stories and More
Hyde Park High School
Support Us
Become a Member
Donate Online or By Mail
Ways to Get Involved
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Featured
Hyde Park to Manzanar: The Life of the Harding Museum Curator & Hyde Park Business Owner Kiyotsugu Tsuchiya
Dec 13, 2024
Hyde Park to Manzanar: The Life of the Harding Museum Curator & Hyde Park Business Owner Kiyotsugu Tsuchiya
Dec 13, 2024
Dec 13, 2024
Paper Conservation with Kim Nichols
Aug 25, 2024
Paper Conservation with Kim Nichols
Aug 25, 2024
Aug 25, 2024
Sherman “Dilla” Thomas makes his mark on the HPHS
Jul 21, 2024
Sherman “Dilla” Thomas makes his mark on the HPHS
Jul 21, 2024
Jul 21, 2024
Frank S Joseph Event Sunday May 19th 2024
May 20, 2024
Frank S Joseph Event Sunday May 19th 2024
May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024
Pemon Rami joined the Hyde Park Book Club to discuss his Memoir When Blackness was Golden
Feb 22, 2023
Pemon Rami joined the Hyde Park Book Club to discuss his Memoir When Blackness was Golden
Feb 22, 2023
Feb 22, 2023
Hyde Park Book Club: Blair Kamin and Lee Bey Discuss "Who is this City For?"
Jan 18, 2023
Hyde Park Book Club: Blair Kamin and Lee Bey Discuss "Who is this City For?"
Jan 18, 2023
Jan 18, 2023
Hyde Park Book Club: In Praise of Good Bookstores with Jeff Deutsch
Nov 22, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: In Praise of Good Bookstores with Jeff Deutsch
Nov 22, 2022
Nov 22, 2022
When Hyde Park was Happening with Patricia Morse
Nov 15, 2022
When Hyde Park was Happening with Patricia Morse
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 15, 2022
Past, Present, and Future of Olmsted Landscapes in Chicago: A Virtual Program
Nov 1, 2022
Past, Present, and Future of Olmsted Landscapes in Chicago: A Virtual Program
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
Oak Woods Cemetery Project in the News
Oct 25, 2022
Oak Woods Cemetery Project in the News
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: Why We Fight with Chris Blattman
Oct 19, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: Why We Fight with Chris Blattman
Oct 19, 2022
Oct 19, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: A Discussion with Bill Savage of  the Chicago based novel "Time for Frankie Coolin" by Author Bill Granger
Sep 21, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: A Discussion with Bill Savage of the Chicago based novel "Time for Frankie Coolin" by Author Bill Granger
Sep 21, 2022
Sep 21, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial with Author Deborah Cohen
Aug 17, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial with Author Deborah Cohen
Aug 17, 2022
Aug 17, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: Murder Ink with Author Betty Hechtman
Jul 19, 2022
Hyde Park Book Club: Murder Ink with Author Betty Hechtman
Jul 19, 2022
Jul 19, 2022
History of Promontory Point (Zoom Video)
Jun 1, 2022
History of Promontory Point (Zoom Video)
Jun 1, 2022
Jun 1, 2022
Three Girls from Bronzeville:A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, & Sisterhood with Dawn Turner (Zoom Video)
May 17, 2022
Three Girls from Bronzeville:A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, & Sisterhood with Dawn Turner (Zoom Video)
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
History of the Chicago Children’s Choir (Zoom Video)
Apr 27, 2022
History of the Chicago Children’s Choir (Zoom Video)
Apr 27, 2022
Apr 27, 2022
South Park Then and Now
Apr 20, 2022
South Park Then and Now
Apr 20, 2022
Apr 20, 2022
Lakefront Anonymous: Chicago's Unknown Art Gallery with Author William Swislow (Zoom Video)
Apr 19, 2022
Lakefront Anonymous: Chicago's Unknown Art Gallery with Author William Swislow (Zoom Video)
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
Hyde Park School of Dance: History and Community (Zoom Video)
Mar 30, 2022
Hyde Park School of Dance: History and Community (Zoom Video)
Mar 30, 2022
Mar 30, 2022
Davarian Baldwin In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities (Zoom Video)
Mar 22, 2022
Davarian Baldwin In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities (Zoom Video)
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
Bedrock Faith: A Novel by Eric Charles May (Zoom Video)
Jan 22, 2022
Bedrock Faith: A Novel by Eric Charles May (Zoom Video)
Jan 22, 2022
Jan 22, 2022
Sibling Revelry: The Poetry of Anara Guard and Gay Guard-Chamberlin (Zoom Video)
Jan 17, 2022
Sibling Revelry: The Poetry of Anara Guard and Gay Guard-Chamberlin (Zoom Video)
Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022
Somewhere in Europe: The World War II Letters of Sam Lesner with Judy Lesner Holstein and Roberta Lesner Bernstein (Zoom Video)
Nov 15, 2021
Somewhere in Europe: The World War II Letters of Sam Lesner with Judy Lesner Holstein and Roberta Lesner Bernstein (Zoom Video)
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard Grinker, PhD Discussion led by Eugene Raikhel, PhD (Zoom Video)
Sep 29, 2021
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard Grinker, PhD Discussion led by Eugene Raikhel, PhD (Zoom Video)
Sep 29, 2021
Sep 29, 2021
Believer: My Forty Years In Politics Discussion led by Raymond Lodato, PhD (Zoom Video)
Sep 23, 2021
Believer: My Forty Years In Politics Discussion led by Raymond Lodato, PhD (Zoom Video)
Sep 23, 2021
Sep 23, 2021
Celebrating Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Gwendolyn Brooks 1917-2000 with Nora Brooks Blakely (Zoom Video)
Aug 24, 2021
Celebrating Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Gwendolyn Brooks 1917-2000 with Nora Brooks Blakely (Zoom Video)
Aug 24, 2021
Aug 24, 2021
Escape through the Pyrenees by Hyde Park author Lisa Fittko (Zoom Video)
Jul 19, 2021
Escape through the Pyrenees by Hyde Park author Lisa Fittko (Zoom Video)
Jul 19, 2021
Jul 19, 2021
The History of Hyde Park’s Grand Hotels with Patricia Morse (Zoom Video)
Jul 18, 2021
The History of Hyde Park’s Grand Hotels with Patricia Morse (Zoom Video)
Jul 18, 2021
Jul 18, 2021
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa (Zoom Video)
Jun 23, 2021
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa (Zoom Video)
Jun 23, 2021
Jun 23, 2021
Featured
Sherman “Dilla” Thomas makes his mark on the HPHS
Jul 21, 2024
Jul 21, 2024
Sherman “Dilla” Thomas makes his mark on the HPHS
Jul 21, 2024
Jul 21, 2024
Jul 21, 2024
Jul 21, 2024
The Hyde Park Herald Stopped by The Open House to Honor Bill Walker
Feb 18, 2024
Feb 18, 2024
The Hyde Park Herald Stopped by The Open House to Honor Bill Walker
Feb 18, 2024
Feb 18, 2024
Feb 18, 2024
Feb 18, 2024
In honor of Black History Month: Download Black Musicians of Oak Woods Coloring Page
Feb 4, 2024
Feb 4, 2024
In honor of Black History Month: Download Black Musicians of Oak Woods Coloring Page
Feb 4, 2024
Feb 4, 2024
Feb 4, 2024
Feb 4, 2024
Patric McCoy gifts Photograph to HPHS
Nov 21, 2023
Nov 21, 2023
Patric McCoy gifts Photograph to HPHS
Nov 21, 2023
Nov 21, 2023
Nov 21, 2023
Nov 21, 2023
A Great Turn Out for Patric McCoy’s Artist Talk on August 20th, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
A Great Turn Out for Patric McCoy’s Artist Talk on August 20th, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
Sep 11, 2023
Press Release:Patric McCoy’s Take My Picture opens August 10th
Jul 20, 2023
Jul 20, 2023
Press Release:Patric McCoy’s Take My Picture opens August 10th
Jul 20, 2023
Jul 20, 2023
Jul 20, 2023
Jul 20, 2023
Black History Word Search
Feb 27, 2023
Feb 27, 2023
Black History Word Search
Feb 27, 2023
Feb 27, 2023
Feb 27, 2023
Feb 27, 2023
Now 102, Chicago historian Timuel Black reflects on lifelong fight for equality
Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021
Now 102, Chicago historian Timuel Black reflects on lifelong fight for equality
Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021
Hyde Park Book Club: Richard Courage and Christopher Robert Reed discuss Black History and Arts in Chicago
Jan 18, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
Hyde Park Book Club: Richard Courage and Christopher Robert Reed discuss Black History and Arts in Chicago
Jan 18, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
Jan 18, 2021
Jan 18, 2021

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