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Website about Hull-House:

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/

Books about Hull-House:

  • 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 About Hull-House:

  • 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.

To learn more about Jane Addams and Hull-House:
Biography of Jane Addams
Chronology of Jane Addams's Life
Near West Side Neighborhood Chronology

Suggestions for additional reading:
Works by Jane Addams
Works about Jane Addams
Works about Jane Addams for Young Readers
Works about the Women of Hull-House

 

Pictured above: Hull-House Community Club. University of Illinois at Chicago, The University Library, Jane Addams Memorial Collection, JAMC neg. 1448