Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. A Prairie Childhood
6. 1. Children of the Western Plains 17
7. 2. Some Family Traditions: Abolition and the Civil War 23
8. 3. Democracy on the High Plains 32
9. 4. Our Prairie Home 40
10. 5. The Rights of the Indian 50
11. 6. The Rights of Women 55
12. 7. Father’s Law Office 60
13. 8. A Home of Law and Politics 68
14. 9. The Children’s Day 75
15. 10. Books in the Prairie Days 83
16. 11. Grace and the Rights of Children 87
17. 12. The Treeless Plains 94
18. 13. The End of the Beginning 102
19. Part 2. The Hull House Years
20. Preface 109
21. 14. Life at Hull House 113
22. 15. Protecting Immigrant Arrivals 127
23. 16. The Lost Immigrant Girls 135
24. 17. The Children of Immigrants 142
25. 18. Protecting Workers: Immigrants and Women 147
26. 19. A Fair Deal: Banks and Courts 154
27. 20. The “New Immigration” 159
28. 21. Immigration at the Source 165
29. 22. The Massachusetts Commission on Immigration 169
30. 23. A Pacifist in the First World War 172
31. 24. Julius Rosenwald 177
32. 25. Votes for Women 180
33. 26. The Children’s Bureau 188
34. 27. The First Child Labor Law 192
35. 28. The Tragedy of “Hammer v. Dagenhart” 203
36. 29. Children and the War 207
37. 30. Back to Chicago 209