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The Settlements: Social Work, Culture, and Ideology in the Progressive Era - Rivka Shpak Lissak. Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890–1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. 184. - Hilda Satt Polacheck. I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl, ed. Dena J. Polacheck Epstein. Introduction by Lynn Y. Weiner, “Afterword” by Dena J. Polacheck Epstein. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. xx, 248. $24.95. - Mina Carson. Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. xiii, 280. $29.95. - Mary Ann Johnson, ed. The Many Faces of Hull-House: The Photographs of Wallace Kirkland. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. 62. Cloth $34.95, paper $19.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Ruth Hutchinson Crocker*
Affiliation:
Auburn University

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