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Extensive Bibliography on Hull-House, 1889-1963 (12p. PDF file)

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Works by Jane Addams

Books:

Addams, Jane. Democracy and Social Ethics. 1902. Reprint. With introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Addams, Jane. The Excellent Becomes the Permanent. New York: Macmillan Co., 1932.

Addams, Jane. The Long Road of Woman's Memory. 1916. Reprint. With introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Addams, Jane. My Friend, Julia Lathrop. 1935. Reprint. With introduction by Anne Firor Scott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2004.

Addams, Jane. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. 1912. Reprint. With introduction by Katherine Joslin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Addams, Jane. Newer Ideals of Peace. 1907. Reprint. Peace Movement in America Series. New York: J.S. Ozer, 1972.

Addams, Jane. Peace and Bread in Time of War. 1922. Reprint. With introduction by Katherine Joslin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Addams, Jane. The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House. New York: Macmillan Co., 1930.

Addams, Jane. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. 1909. Reprint. With introduction by Allen F. Davis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. 1910. Reprint. With introduction and notes by James Hurt. Prairie State Books. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. 1910. Abridged reprint. Edited and with an introduction by Victoria Bissell Brown. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.

Addams, Jane, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton. Women at the Hague. 1915. Reprint. With introduction by Harriet Hyman Alonso. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Edited Collections of Essays:

In addition to several books, Jane Addams wrote hundreds of articles on a vast array of subjects, including aspects of settlement house life, industrial conditions, juvenile justice, suffrage, civil rights, municipal reform and planning, immigration and ethnicity, child welfare, international peace, and many more. These articles were originally published in both scholarly journals and popular magazines that reached a wide audience. A good selection are reprinted in the following collections:

Addams, Jane. The Jane Addams Reader. Edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain. New York: Basic Books, 2002

Lasch, Christopher, ed. The Social Thought of Jane Addams. American Heritage Series. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1965.

Various Essays by Jane Addams may be found on the website:
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/

Works about Jane Addams

Books:

Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 1, Preparing to Lead, 1860-81. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Deegan, Mary Jo. Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988.

Diliberto, Gioia. A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams. New York, NY: Scribner, 1999.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2001.

Farrell, John C. Beloved Lady: A History of Jane Addams' Ideas on Reform and Peace. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967.

Joslin, Katherine. Jane Addams, A Writer's Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Knight, Louise W. Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Levine, Daniel. Jane Addams and the Liberal Tradition. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971.

Linn, James Weber. Jane Addams: A Biography. 1935. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Polikoff, Barbara Garland. With One Bold Act: The Story of Jane Addams. Chicago: Boswell Books, 1999.

Articles:

Brown, Victoria. "Jane Addams." In Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Cook, Blanche Wiesen. "Female Support Networks and Political Activism: Lillian Wald, Crystal Eastman, Emma Goldman." In A Heritage of Her Own: Toward A New Social History of American Women. Edited by Nancy F. Cott and Elizabeth H. Pleck. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

Lasch, Christopher. "Jane Addams: The College Woman and the Family Claim." In The New Radicalism in America (1889-1963): The Intellectual as a Social Type, 3-37. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

Seigfried, Charlene Haddock. Introduction to Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Works about Jane Addams For Young Readers

Elementary School Level:

Arnold, Caroline. Children of the Settlement Houses. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books Inc., 1998. (Grades 3-6).

Edge, Laura B. A Personal Tour of Hull-House. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2001.

Gilbert, Miriam. Jane Addams: World Neighbor. Makers of America. New York: Abingdon Press, 1960. (Favorable telling through dialogue that reads independently at 6th grade.)

Gleiter, Jan and Kathleen Thompson. Jane Addams. Milwaukee: Raintree Childrens Books, 1988. (Flexible introductory reader that appeals to 3-5th grade. Reads independently at 5th grade. The realistic story and language along with the child's point of view and stimulating illustrations encourage and hold interest at three levels.)

Glowacki, Peggy and Julia Hendry. Hull-House. Chicago: Arcadia, 2004.

Grant, Matthew G. Jane Addams: Helper of the Poor. Gallery of Great Americans Series. Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 1974. (Simply written for 6-7th grade. Illustrations and simplicity suggest reading aloud with instruction at lower grades.)

Johnson, Ann Donegan. The Value of Friendship: The Story of Jane Addams. Value Tales. La Jolla, CA: Value Communications, 1979. (4th grade. Highly fictionalized account.)

Judson, Clara Ingram. City Neighbor: The Story of Jane Addams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. (Simple telling through dialogue and narrative that is independent leisure reading at 7th grade.)

Keller, Gail Faithfull. Jane Addams. A Crowell Biography. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. (6th grade reading level but highly simplified content.)

Kent, Deborah. Jane Addams and Hull-House. Cornerstones of Freedom. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1992. (3rd through 6th grade reading level. Includes photographs.)

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. Peace and Bread: The Story of Jane Addams. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books Inc., 1993. (For ages 9-12)

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. The Workers’ Detective: A Story About Dr. Alice Hamilton. Minneapolis, Carolrhoda Books Inc., 1992. (For grades 4-8)

Mooney, Elizabeth Comstock. Jane Addams. Library of American Heroes. Chicago: Follett Publishing Co., 1968. (Leisure story that reads independently at 8th grade. Syntax and language raise readability higher than concepts suggest.)

Piotrowski, Bonnie, ed. "Jane Addams, 1860-1935." Cobblestone, Vol. 20:3, March 1999. Cobblestone Publishing Company, Petersborough, NH. (For grades 4-9)

Wagoner, Jean Brown. Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl. 1944. Reprint. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1962. (3rd grade. Widely read but dated interpretation.)

Secondary School Level:

Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. (Abridged). Edited by Victoria Bissell Brown. Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston/New York: Bedford St. Martins Press, 1999.

Kittredge, Mary. Jane Addams. American Women of Achievement Series. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988. (Supplemental, special interest reader at the high school level. Historic photos and illustrations complement a straightforward and energetic writing style that instructs and encourages the reader.)

Meigs, Cornelia. Jane Addams: Pioneer for Social Justice. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. (Historical high school level reader. Well organized and detailed. Direct instruction tool, aid in student research projects, and good biography for interested reader.)

Parks, Deborah A. Jane Addams: Freedom's Innovator. Time-Life History Makers Series. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 2000.

Works about Hull-House

Books:

Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree and Allen F. Davis, eds. One Hundred Years at Hull-House. Rev., expanded ed. of: Eighty Years at Hull-House, 1969. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Clapp, Elizabeth. Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile courts in Progressive Era America. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Davis, Allen. Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Deegan, Mary Jo. Race, Hull-House, and the University of Chicago: A New Conscience Against Ancients Evils. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Ganz, Cherlyl R., and Margaret Strobel, eds. Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Glowacki, Peggy and Julia Hendry. Hull-House. Chicago: Arcadia, 2004.

Hull-House, Residents of. Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions. 1895. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1970.

Jackson, Shannon. Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum: Humanities Programs for the Centennial. Opening New Worlds: Jane Addams' Hull-House. Chicago: UIC Institute for the Humanities, 1989.

Lissak, Rivka Shpak. Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

McNamee, Gwen Hoerr, ed. A Noble Social Experiment: The First 100 Years of the Cook County Juvenile Court 1899-1999. Chicago: Chicago Bar Association with the Children’s Court Centennial Committee, 1999.

Polacheck, Hilda Satt. I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Stebner, Eleanor J. The Women of Hull House: A Study in Spirituality, Vocation and Friendship. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

Tomko, Linda J. Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Trolander, Judith Ann. Settlement Houses and the Great Depression. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1975.

Articles:

Addams, Jane. "Hull-House." In The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform, eds. William Bliss and Rudolph Binder. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1908.

Abbott, Edith. "The Hull-House of Jane Addams." Social Service Review XXVI (September, 1952): 334-38.

Hamilton, Alice. "Hull-House Within." Chap IV in Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton. 1943. Reprint. Beverley, MA: OEM Press, 1995.

Horowitz, Helen. "Hull-House as Women's Space." Chicago History 12 (Winter, 1983-84): 40-55.

Kelley, Nicholas. "Early Days at Hull-House." Social Service Review 28 (December 1954): 424-29.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish. "Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers." Signs 10 (1985): 658-77.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish. “Who Funded Hull-House?” In Lady Bountiful Revisited: Women Philanthropy and Power, ed. Kathleen D. McCarthy. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 94-115.

Trolander, Judith. "Hull-House and the Settlement House Movement: A Centennial Reassessment". Journal of Urban History 17 (August 1991): 410-20.

Photographs:

Glowacki, Peggy, and Julia Hendry. Hull-House. Chicago: Arcadia, 2004.

Johnson, Mary Ann, ed. The Many Faces of Hull-House: The Photographs of Wallace Kirkland. Visions of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Works about the Women of Hull-House

General:

Deegan, Mary Jo. "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Women of Hull-House, 1895-1899." American Sociologist 19, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 301-10.

Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform. New York: Oxford, 1990.

James, Edward T. et al., eds. Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1974. Contains biographical entries on: Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Florence Kelley, Julia Lathrop, Mary McDowell, and Ellen Gates Starr.

Muncy, Robyn. Creating A Female Dominion in American Reform 1890-1935. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Schultz, Rima Lunin, and Adele Hast, eds. Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Contains biographical entries on residents, workers, major donors, and trustees: Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Ruth Austin, Enella Benedict, Jessie Binford, Louise deKoven Bowen, Neva Boyd, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Helen Culver, Cornelia De Bey, Rose Marie Gyles, Alice Hamilton, Ellen M. Henrotin, Josepha Humpal-Zeman, Anna Wilmarth Ickes, Florence Kelley, Mary Kenney, Esther Loeb Kohn, Julia Lathrop, Mary McDowell, Edith de Nancrede, Anna E. Nicholes, Laura Dainty Pelham, Hilda Polachek, Alice Whiting Putnam, Harriet Rice, Adena Miller Rice, Adena Miller Rich, Madeleine Wallin Sikes, Eleanor Slagle, Eleanor Smith, Mary Roset Smith, Ellen Gates Starr, Alizina Stevens, Sarah Hackett Stevenson, Alice Kellogg Tyler, Mary J. H. Wilmarth, Edith F. Wyatt, Rachelle Yarros.

Sicherman, Barbara et al., ed. Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1980. Contains biographical entry on: Alice Hamilton.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish. "Hull House in the 1890s: A Community of Women Reformers." Signs 10 (Summer 1985): 658-77.

Stehno, Sandra M. "Public Responsibility for Dependant Black Children: The Advocacy of Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge." Social Service Review 62 (September 1988): 485-503.

Wright, Helen R. "Three Against Time: Edith and Grace Abbott and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge." Social Service Review 28 (March 1954): 41-53.

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1775-2000: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhullhouse.htm

Grace and Edith Abbott:

Abbott, Edith. "Grace Abbott and Hull House, 1908-21." Social Service Review 24 (September 1950): 374-94.

Costin, Lela B. "Edith Abbott and the Chicago Influence on Social Work Education." Social Service Review 57 (March 1983): 94-111.

Costin, Lela B. Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Reprint. Urbana: Universtity of Illinois Press, 2003.

Costin, Lela B. "Women and Physicians: The 1930 White House Conference on Children." Social Work 28 (March/April 1983): 108-14.

Louise deKoven Bowen:

Bowen, Louise deKoven. Growing Up With a City. 1926. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Bowen, Louise deKoven. Open Windows: Stories of People and Places. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1946.

Sophonisba Breckinridge:

Abbott, Edith. "Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge Over the Years." Social Service Review 22 (December 1948): 417-23.

Klotter, James. The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1986.

Alice Hamilton:

Hamilton, Alice. Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton. 1943. Reprint. With introduction by Jean Spencer Felton, M.D. Beverly, MA: OEM Press, 1995.

Sicherman, Barbara, ed. Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Sicherman, Barbara. "Gender, Professionalism and Reform in the Career of Alice Hamilton." In Women in the Progressive Era. Edited by, Noralee Frankel and Nancy Schrom Dye. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.

http://center.acs.org/landmarks/landmarks/hamilton/index.html/

Florence Kelley:

Blumberg, Dorothy Rose. Florence Kelley: The Making of a Social Pioneer. New York: Augustus Kelley, 1966.

Goldmark, Josephine. Impatient Crusader: Florence Kelley's Life Story. 1953. Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.

Perkins, Frances. "My Recollections of Florence Kelley." Social Service Review 28 (March 1954): 12-19.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish. Florence Kelly and the Nations Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900. New Haven and London. Yale University Press, 1995.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, ed. The Autobiography of Florence Kelley: Notes of Sixty Years. First Person Series, no. 1. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1986.

Julia Lathrop:

Abbott, Edith. "Julia Lathrop." Social Service Review 6 (September 1932): 336.

Addams, Jane. My Friend, Julia Lathrop. New York: Macmillan Co., 1935.

Addams, Jane. "A Great Public Servant, Julia C. Lathrop." Social Service Review 6 (June 1932): 280-85.

"Julia Lathrop and the Public Social Services." Social Service Review 6 (June 1932): 301-06.

Parker, Jacqueline K., and Edward M. Carpenter. "Julia Lathrop and the Children's Bureau: The Emergence of an Institution." Social Service Review 55 (May 1981): 60-77.