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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Hull-House"”.
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Vocal Music at Hull-House, 1889--1942: An Overview of Choral and Singing Class Events and a Study of the Life and Works of Eleanor Smith, Founder of the Hull -House Music School
… compositions, and a list of those works that are housed in the Special Collections Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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The Sentinels of Order: A Case Study of Social Control and the Minneapolis Settlement House Movement, 1897-1950 (Minnesota)
… literature on American settlements focuses on Hull House, Henry Street Settlement, Chicago Commons, and South End House. Although these settlements had a significant influence on city and often, national politics, they comprised only a small portion of the national settlement house community. …
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Experiments in Social Salvation: The Settlement Movement in Chicago, 1890-1910
… Jane Addams' correspondence, Twenty Years at Hull-House, and issues of the periodical The Commons. The historiography of the Progressive Era is also considered, and the effects of class, gender, and race upon its development throughout the twentieth century.
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Collaborating with Chicago Urban Communities: The Unforeseen Challenges of Better Museum Practices
… (CVL), which was co-created with the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Both Chicago institutions worked with public housing residents and the former CVL, a 1960s gang, to give voice to two often unheard communities. Through an anthropological and museum studies perspective, this thesis summarizes the …
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Saving the Children: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Citizenship in America
… the Other Half Lives; Julia Lathrop, resident of Hull House and first director of the U.S. Children's Bureau; and Grace Abbott, professor at the University of Chicago and second director of the Children's Bureau.
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… modernity and domesticity in Jane Addams's Hull-House writings and William Dean Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes . In chapter three, "Women on the Verge," I examine Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, which articulate a gendered modernity, offering …
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The Jacob A. Riis-Theodore Roosevelt Digital Archive
… of The Jungle, and Jane Addams, founder of Hull House. The digital archive is specifically focused on Riis and former US president Theodore Roosevelt, the latter of whom was the founding member of the Progressive Party. This approach presents two different ways that Progressive Reform was …
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Ready for Experiment: Dwight Perkins and Progressive Architectures in Chicago, 1893-1918
… social settlements, most notably Hull House, have long been considered the mainstay of American progressive reforms. Yet settlement houses were but one aspect of a wide-ranging set of architectural and spatial inventions that used certain kinds of familiar imagery to build public …
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Civic Dignity and Meaningful Political Participation
… be contributed. Through Addams’ experience at Hull House, the settlement house she co-founded, I highlight how these opportunities for</p> <p>meaningful political participation are indispensable to individual civic dignity, and by extension, individual liberty and well-being.</p> <p>Second, …
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The Steppenwolf Scenario: Establishing the habitus of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community
This study focuses on the history, development, and structuring elements of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community. My research, grounded in Diana Taylor’s concept of scenarios and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, takes a sociological lens to the historical antecedents and theatrical …