Publications: Professionalism
and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood
Centers, 1886 to the
Present (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987); Settlement Houses
and the Great Depression (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975)
to be digitally reprinted by Cornell University in 2006; “Gender
Discrimination Litigation in Higher Education: the United States and
England” to be published in Forum on Public Policy: A Journal
of the oxford Round Table (Vol. 1, No. 1);
“
Lillian Wald: Meeting the Needs of Neighborhoods, 1893-1933" in
The Human Tradition in Urban America, ed. Roger Biles (Wilmington,
Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2002), 103-118;
“
Fighting Racism and Sexism: The Council on Social Work Education,” Social
Service Review 71, no. 1 (March 1997), 110-134; “Introduction
to the Transaction Edition,” The Settlement Horizon by Robert
A. Woods and Albert J. Kennedy (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers,
1990), vii-xxiii; “From Settlement Houses to Neighborhood Centers:
A History of the Settlement House Movement in the United States,” Hundred
Years of Settlement and Neighborhood Centres in North America and Europe,
ed. Herman Nijenhuis (Utrecht: GAMMA, 1986), 41-56; “Social Change:
Settlement Houses and Saul Alinsky, 1939-1965,” Social Service
Review 56, no. 3 (September 1982), 345-365; “The Response of
Settlements to the Great Depression,” Social Work 18, no. 5 (September
1973), 92-102; “Twenty Years at Hiram House,” Ohio History
78 (Winter 1969), 25-38, 69-71; “Hull-House and the Settlement
House Movement: A Centennial Reassessment,” Journal of Urban
History 17, no. 4 (August 1991), 410-420.
Book reviews: Helping Others: Power, Giving and Community Identity
in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930 by Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan, Journal of
American History, June 2003, 255-56; Housing and the Democratic Ideal:
The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams by A. Scott Henderson and From
the Puritans to the Projects: Public housing and Public Neighbors by
Lawrence J. Vale, Journal of American History, December 2001, 1161-62;
Tales of Wayward Girls and Immoral Women: Case Records and Professionalization
of Social Work by Karen Tice, American Historical Review, October 1999,
1320-21; Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change
in America, 1900-1933 by Morton Keller, American Historical Review,
February 1996, 243; and thirteen other book reviews.
Conference Papers and Comments: “ Retirees Head South: The Origins
of Active Adult, Age-Restricted Retirement Communities and the Snowbird
Lifestyle” to be presented at the Organization of American Historians
Regional Conference, 6-8 July 2006, Lincoln, Nebraska; “Internationalizing
U.S. History in the Classroom,” Organization of American Historians’ Midwest
Regional Conference. Ames, Iowa: 4 August 2000; “The Effects
of Gender Discrimination Litigation on Academia: The Rajender Consent
Decree,” Organization of American Historians. Toronto, Ontario,
Canada: 23 April 1999 and thirty-three other presentations, including
comments, chairing, and a poster session.