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Seminar 3 - Source Evaluation

This document summarizes a source for a history seminar on source evaluation. It discusses Jane Addams' book "Twenty Years at Hull House" which documents her experiences founding the first settlement house in the United States in a poor area of Chicago. The goal of the book was to document Addams' life and work at Hull House, and how community organizations can help those in need. It provides background on Addams and the settlement house movement, as well as analyzing the underlying values and purpose of the primary source in accurately portraying Addams' experiences for historical understanding.

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Seminar 3 - Source Evaluation

This document summarizes a source for a history seminar on source evaluation. It discusses Jane Addams' book "Twenty Years at Hull House" which documents her experiences founding the first settlement house in the United States in a poor area of Chicago. The goal of the book was to document Addams' life and work at Hull House, and how community organizations can help those in need. It provides background on Addams and the settlement house movement, as well as analyzing the underlying values and purpose of the primary source in accurately portraying Addams' experiences for historical understanding.

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Running head: Seminar 2: Source Evaluation

Seminar 3: Source Evaluation


Lila S. Huff
Baker College

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Seminar 3: Source Evaluation
Often times an historian wants to answer the why questions so that they can provide the
facts of what has happened in the past. Bias is a very difficult concept for an historian but it is
critical to ensure that the history is documented accurately. To more fully understand the past, the
source that will be reviewed below is the primary sources Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull
House.
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
As a daughter of a wealthy family and a 1882 graduate of Rockford Seminary in Illinois,
Jane Addams was the leader of the American settlement house movement. A movement that
included a community of female college graduates that were dedicated to social service. Addams
recognized a need and did her best to address it by establishing the Hull House and devoted
herself to the movement.
Source underlying values. Addams documented both her life and the Hull House in her
publication Twenty years at Hull House (DuBois & Dumenil). Jane Addams goal in writing this
publication was to document her life and the importance of social giving to her and to document
how communities such as Hull House can impact others around them. The Hull House, the first
settlement house in the United States, was located in a rundown section of Chicago. It was
believed that the location of such an institution would allow them to help those who really
needed to be helped. When writing this publication, Addams wanted to document her
experiences at the settlement house.

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Works Cited
DuBois, E. C., & Dumenil, L. (n.d.). Through Women's Eyes (Fourth ed.). (C. M. Horn, Ed.)
Bedford/St. Martin's.

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