Twenty Years at Hull-House A Brief History with Documents

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Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2017-09-08
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Gain an introduction to the Progressive Era and one of its leader as Twenty Years at Hull-House dives into the life of Jane Addams and how her founding of Hull-House and her reform efforts to protect immigrants and those on the political margins impacted U.S. history.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Part One: Introduction: Jane Addams Constructs Herself and Hull-House

Growing Up in the Gilded Age

The Nature and Purpose of Memoir

Twenty Years at Hull-House in Place and Time

Inside Hull-House

Jane Addams and the Progressive Era

Part Two: The Document

Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes

Part Three: Related Documents

1. Hull-House Weekly Program, March 1, 1892

2. William G. Sumner, LL.D., The Concentration of Wealth: Its Economic Justification, The Independent, 1902

3. Jane Addams, If Men Were Seeking the Franchise, Ladies’ Home Journal, June 1913

4. An Oft-Told Tale and The Lamb Tags on to the Lion, The New York Call, April 25, 1912 and August 11, 1912

5. Edward Alsworth Ross, Racial Consequences of Immigration, The Century Magazine, February 1914

6. Gino C. Speranza, How it Feels to be a Problem, Charities, 1904

7. Philp Davis, Jane Addams Invites Me in from And Crown Thy Good (1952)

8. H.J. Pinkett, Omaha, Nebraska to Jane Addams, May 12, 1908

Appendices

An Addams Chronology (1860-1935)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index

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