American Settlement Houses and Progressive Social Reform: An Encyclopedia of the American Settlement Movement - Hardcover

by Domenica M. Barbuto (Author)

The American Settlement Movement was one of the most significant, broadly based reform efforts in the history of the United States, yet surprisingly few people are even aware of its existence. American Settlement Houses and Progressive Social Reform documents, for the first time, the history of the American Settlement Movement in an A to Z format. Included in the Encyclopedia's 230 entries are biographies of key individuals, descriptions of settlement houses and reform committees, synopses of influential writings and reports, and articles on major issues affecting the movement

Author Biography

Domenica M. Barbuto holds a PhD in history from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an MLS from C.W. Post College in Greenvale, New York. She is currently an associate professor in the Harold E. Yuker Reference Library at the Joan & Donald E. Axinn Library at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, where she is responsible for business-related reference services and the librarys information literacy program.