Twenty Years at Hull-House Centennial Edition

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Signet Classics
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Summary

A new teaching edition of "Twenty Years at Hull-House," this volume is an ideal way to introduce students to one of America7;s most famous women and an early leader of the Progressive movement. Jane Addams7;s original text has been reduced by about 35 percent, making it more accessible to undergraduates while maintaining the integrity of the original work. Her narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an entry into the ideology of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. The introduction provides a brief biographical sketch of Addams, outlines the decisions and conviction that led her to found Hull-House, and includes a vivid description of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Related documents include a description of life at Hull-House from the perspective of an immigrant who frequented it, an early review of Addams7;s tale, and perspectives from other reformers. Useful apparatus includes photographs, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
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
The Document
Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes
Related Documents
Hull-House Weekly Program, March 1, 1892
Florence Kelley, "Hull House," New England Magazine, July 1898
William G. Sumner, LL.D., "The Concentration of Wealth: Its Economic Justification," The Independent, 1902
"An Oft-Told Tale" and "The Lamb Tags on to the Lion," The New York Call, April 25, 1912 and August 11, 1912
Jane Addams, "If Men Were Seeking the Franchise," Ladies' Home Journal, June 1913
Edward Alsworth Ross, "Racial Consequences of Immigration," The Century Magazine, February 1914
Hilda Satt Polacheck, I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl
Appendices
An Addams Chronology (1860-1935)
Selected Bibliography
Index
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