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Books by Jane Addams

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Newer Ideals of Peace. New York: Macmillan, 1907. Reprinted with introduction by Berenice A. Carroll and Clinton F. Fink. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. New York: Macmillan, 1909. Reprinted with introduction by Allen F. Davis. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. New York: Macmillan, 1910. Reprinted with original illustrations by Norah Hamilton and introduction and notes by James Hurt. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. 1912. Reprinted with introduction by Katherine Joslin.  Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

The Long Road of Woman’s Memory. 1916. Reprinted with introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

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

The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, With a Record of a Growing Consciousness.  New York: Macmillan, 1930.

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

My Friend, Julia Lathrop. New York: Macmillan, 1935. Reprinted with introduction by Anne Firor Scott. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Forty Years at Hull-House; being “Twenty Years at Hull-House” and “The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House” with afterword  by Lillian Wald. New York: Macmillan, 1935.

Collections of Addams’s Writings

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Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader. New York: Macmillan, 1960.

____________. “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,” and “The Objective Value of a Social Settlement.” In Philanthropy and Social Progress. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1893.

Twenty Years at Hull-House. Abridged reprint.  Edited with introduction and related documents by Victoria Bissell Brown. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.

Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, ed. The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996.

__________. The Jane Addams Papers. Microfilm, 82 reels. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International,1985-86.

Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury, eds. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 1, Preparing to Lead, 1860-81. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

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__________. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 2, Venturing Into Usefulness, 1881-88. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

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Davis, Allen F., ed. Jane Addams on Peace, War, and International Understanding.  New York: Garland, 1976.

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

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

Books about Jane Addams

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Brown, Victoria Bissell.  The Education of Jane Addams. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

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Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, Nancy Slote, and Maree de Angury.  The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

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Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury, eds. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 1, Preparing to Lead, 1860-81. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

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__________. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 2, Venturing Into Usefulness, 1881-88. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

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Conway, Jill Kerr.  The First Generation of American Women Graduates.  New York and London:  Garland Publishing, Inc., 1987.

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Davis, Allen F. American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. First published 1973 by Oxford University Press.

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

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

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

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

Fischer, Marilyn, Carol Nackenoff, and Wendy Chmielewski, eds.  Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

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

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

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe. Jane Addams on Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1985.

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

Linn, James Weber. Jane Addams: A Biography. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935. Reprinted with introduction by Anne Firor Scott. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Sicherman, Barbara.  Well-Read Lives; How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Tims, Margaret. Jane Addams of Hull House, 1860-1935; A Centenary Study. New York: Macmillan, 1961.

Books about Hull-House and Its Residents

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Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. New York: Macmillan, 1910. Edited with introduction by Victoria Bissell Brown. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.

Bisno, Abraham. Abraham Bisno, Union Pioneer; An Autobiographical Account of Bisno’s Early Life and the Beginnings of Unionism in the Women’s Garment Industry. With a foreword by Joel Seidman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Bowen, Louise de Koven. Growing Up With a City. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Reprinted with introduction by Maureen A. Flanagan. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

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

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

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

Glowacki, Peggy, and Julia Hendry. Hull-House. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Press, 2004.

Hackett, Francis. American Rainbow; Early Reminiscences. New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 1970.

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

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

Kirkland, Wallace. Recollections of a LIFE Photographer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.

Loth, David Goldsmith. Swope of G.E.: The Story of Gerard Swope and General Electric in American Business. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.

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

Polacheck, Hilda Satt. I Came A Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl. Edited by Dena J. Polacheck Epstein with introduction by Lynn Y. Weiner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Sicherman, Barbara. Alice Hamilton; A Life in Letters. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish and Beverly Wilson Palmer.  The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931.  Urbana and Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Smith, Eleanor. Hull House Songs. Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1915.

Starr, Ellen Gates. On Art, Labor, and Religion. Edited with introduction by Mary Jo Deegan and Ana-Maria Wahl. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2003.

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

Teatero, William. Mackenzie King: Man of Mission. Ontario, Canada: T. Nelson & Sons, 1979.

Books about the Settlement House Movement, Progressivism, Urban Reform, and Philanthropy

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Bowen, Louise de Koven.  Speeches, Addresses, and Letters of Louise de Koven Bowen; Reflecting Social Movements in Chicago. 2 vols. Ann Arbor, Mich: Edwards Bros., Inc., 1937.

Carson, Mina. Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Chambers, Clark A. Seedtime of Reform; American Social Service and Social Action, 1918-1933. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963.

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 F. Spearheads for Reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1984.

Flanagan, Maureen. Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

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

Hamilton, Alice. Exploring the Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. Reprinted with foreword by Jean Spencer Felton, M.D. Beverly Farms, MA :OEM Press, 1995.

Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981.

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Knupfer, Anne Meis. Reform and Resistance: Gender, Delinquency, and America’s First Juvenile Court. New York: Routlege, 2001.

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe. A Generation of Women: Education in the Lives of Progressive Reformers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth. Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1993.

McCarthy, Kathleen. Noblesse Oblige: Charity and Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1849-1929. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

___________, ed. Lady Bountiful Revisited: Women, Philanthropy, and Power: New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

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.

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