Take a tour of Hull-House from anywhere using Hull-House History on Call that features nine stories about Hull-House Settlement history and its legacy told by Chicago educators, scholars and activists. Follow the instructions below:
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Dial 21, Jane Addams' FBI File
Former Weather Underground member and educator Bill Ayers discusses how Jane Addams' solidarity with women, racial minorities, and immigrants made her a target for J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Dial 32, Bowen Country Club
Chicago teacher and community activist Prexy Nesbitt discusses his own firsthand experiences with Hull-House Settlement's Bowen Country Club away from the segregated City of Chicago.
Dial 43, Jane Addams Family Clock
Jane Addams scholar and author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy Louise W. Knight on Jane Addams’ childhood and work ethnic as an adult.
Dial 54, Hull-House Maps & Papers
Scholar Vijay Prashad discusses Hull-House’s remarkable 1895 study “Hull-House Maps & Papers: A presentation of nationalities and wages in a congested district of Chicago,” and the role of racism and multiculturalism.
Dial 65, the nations first juvenile court at Hull-House Settlement
Hear Bernardine Dohrn, a former professors of children and family law, on the formation and legacy of the nation's first Juvenile Justice Court.
Alice Hamilton (1869—1970)
Dial 76 Social Reformer Alice Hamilton
Listen to an interview with climate and nuclear proliferation activist Helen Caldicott about science and social change.
Dial 87, Hull-House Demolition
Studs Terkel interviews Hull-House Director Florence Scala (1918—2007) while the demolition of Hull-House Settlement can be heard behind them in July 1963.
Dial 96, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Jane Addams and racial reform
Author and historian Paula Giddings on the relationship between Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jane Addams, racial reform and the U.S. anti-lynching campaign.
Dial 98, poet Kevin Coval reads his “remains. Jane Addams’ town”
Poet and publisher Kevin Coval is Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors and founder of the poetry festival Louder Than a Bomb. He was resident poet at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum from 2007 to 2008.
