-Urban Guides for "Strangers": Necessary Knowledge
-Streets, Avenues, and Boulevards: Urban Corridors
-Residential Boundaries, Transportation, and Business
Reading the History of Chicago through Maps
-Mark Twain's Chicago: a "Puke" from Missouri Travels to the "Sucker's Big City"
-Theodore Dreiser & Sherwood Anderson: Learning the Writer's Trade in the NWS
-"Our Folks" in the NWS: Clara Laughlin & Women Writers
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-Charles Hull's Vision and the History of his Mansion at Halsted and Polk
-Jane Addams Settles Down in a Decaying Boarding House: 1889
-The Secretary of Labor & His Agent in Chicago Investigate a "Slum": 1893
-Hull House Maps & Papers (1895): The Influence of a Social Survey
-The Women of the Hull House Settlement Meet Children from the Streets
-The Many Settlement Houses in the NWS: "The Black Hole"
-International Visibility: British Reformers Come to Observe and Comment
-The Legacy of Wallace Kirkland, Neighborhood "Social Photographer"
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-"Foreign Nationalities" Begin Arriving in the Mid-19th Century
ITALIANS: Paesans in Motion
-The Castaldos on Taylor Street: a Family History
-Paesans, Pasta, and Progressives: Italian Foodways and American Culture
-A Portrait of Ethnic Italian Women
-"Feste": Street Religion and Church Authority
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JEWS: From Shtetl to Ghetto
-"We Cheat You Fair": Retailing Wholesale in the Maxwell Street Market
-Virtual Walking Tour of the Maxwell Street Neighborhood: Maxwell Street Market Historic District National Register
-Hilda Polacheck, A "Russian Hebrew" Girl and Breadgiver
-A Portrait of Ethnic Jewish Women
-The Chicago Hebrew Institute and Philip Seman: a Jewish Settlement House
-Garments, Sweat Shops, & Trade Unionism: the 1910 Hart Schaffner & Marx Strike
BOHEMIANS: When Pilsen was Czech
GREEK-AMERICANS: Generations of Change on the NWS
IRISH-AMERICANS on the NWS
AFRICAN-AMERICANS on the NWS
MEXICAN-AMERICANS on the NWS
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-"Vicious Amusements": Saloons, Nickelodeons, Dance Halls
-Girls Growing Up on the Sidewalks; Boys on the Streets
-Jane Addams Speaks for Reformers: The Spirit of Youth & the City Streets
-Chicago Sociologists & Social Workers Discover Gangs: Juvenile Delinquency
-Popular Music in the Everyday lives of Urban Americans
-Society on Stage: Popular Theater in Chicago
-Baseball: the "Urban Religion," on the Streets, in the Ball Park
-Cap Anson's Winning White Stockings in the West Side Stadium
-Billy Sunday's Conversion: a Professional Ball-Player's Evangelical Career
-"Chicagoed" in the Major Leagues: a Glossary of Baseball Vernacular
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-Growing Up in Industrial Oshkosh, the Great Lumber Strike
-Young Manhood at the University of Chicago & the Dewey School
-Early Career in Photography at the Ethical Culture School and the Pittsburgh Survey: Joseph Stella and Lewis Hine
-Social Photography "In the Neighborhood of Hull-House"
-Vice District: Chicago by Day & Night, Pleasure Seeker's Guide
-Public Health, Morbidity, & a Glossary of Late 19th Century Diseases
-Tenements & Housing: Dwellers and Visiting Social Workers
-Beginnings: the University of Illinois Medical School
-Max Thorek: Ethnic Physician & Surgeon in the NWS
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The University of Chicago Connection to the NWS:
-The First Department of Sociology in the U.S., 1892
-Life History & Ethnography in Classic Studies from Urban Street Life
-John Dewey Articulates a "Chicago" Pragmatism for American Liberalism
Conclusion
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