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A Prairie Childhood - the Spring 2003
text of an edited version of Edith Abbott's memoir of
Grace's childhood is available on the internet via the
website of the
Center for Great Plains Studies and this organization's
Great Plains Quarterly.
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/032003/new_abbott20.shtml
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Stuhr, library offer resources for Abbott research
http://theindependent.com/stories/082502/new_greene25.html
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Book festival to feature Greene speech, performance
opportunities
http://theindependent.com/stories/052502/new_tours25.html
Saturday, May 25, 2002
Cemetery tours evoke memories
http://theindependent.com/stories/033102/fea_fosselman31.html
Sunday, March 31, 2002
Who wore what, when, where, why and how?
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/032102/new_abbott21.html
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Abbott promotions will boost the city's identity,
officials say
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/032102/new_abbottday21.html
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Abbott sisters celebrated in Lincoln, Grand Island
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/031502/new_abbott15.html
Friday, March 15, 2002
Celebrating the Abbott sisters
Many events planned to honor accomplishments of the G.I.
natives
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/032102/new_abbottday21.html
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Abbott sisters celebrated in Lincoln, Grand Island
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/032102/new_abbott21.html
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Abbott promotions will boost the city's identity,
officials say
http://theindependent.com/stories/031702/opi_library17.html
Sunday, March 17, 2002
Women sustaining the American spirit
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/030302/new_abbotts03.html
Sunday, March 3, 2002
Special day proclaimed for Abbott sisters
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/092601/fea_builders26.html
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
CommunityBuilders
Nonprofit organizations benefit from half-dozen
community foundations
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/091701/new_bill17.html
Monday, September 17, 2001
Former GISH teacher sculpts monument for South
Dakota
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/080201/opi_letters02.html
Thursday, August 2, 2001
Letters to the Editor
...Abbotts' contributions should be admired...
http://theindependent.com/stories/073101/gui_fame.html
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Some claims to fame: Abbott Sisters, Fonda
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/062401/new_bust24.html
Sunday, June 24, 2001
Bronze busts of Abbott sisters dedicated at library
Researcher hopes children will be inspired by memorial
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/062301/opi_edit23.html
Saturday, June 23, 2001
Sculptures will honor Abbott sisters
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/062101/fea_abbotts21.html
Thursday, June 21, 2001
G.I.'s favorite daughters
Local artist makes permanent remembrance of Grand Island
sisters
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/062101/fea_tribute21.html
Thursday, June 21, 2001
The goal of the Abbott Sisters Project
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/061701/opi_otherperspect17.html
Sunday, June 17, 2001
Abbott sisters project adds to library
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/061601/new_sculpt16.html
Saturday, June 16, 2001
Abbott sisters sculptures to be dedicated
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/052601/new_new_cem26.html
Saturday, May 26, 2001
Grand Island Cemetery filled with history
Tour teaches about past, pays tribute to Abbott sisters
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/051001/new_website10.html
Thursday, May 10, 2001
Students create Web site about Abbott sisters
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/050501/new_boosters05.html
Saturday, May 5, 2001
Fine arts boosters ask board for help
G.I. supporters request to be first in line for more funding
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/111800/new_abbotts18.html
Saturday, November 18, 2000
Sorensen would like to create Abbott sisters
curriculum
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/111700/new_abbottproject17.html
Friday, November 17, 2000
G.I. native planning Abbott sisters education
project
http://theindependent.com/stories/060400/opi_fosselman04.html
Sunday, June 4, 2000
Behold our new century
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/092799/new_library27.html
Monday, September 27, 1999
Bookworm's delight
Library celebrates birthday, remembers past
http://www.gips.org/Technology/T.I.E./Mangers-Johnson/Abbott%20Sisters/Abbott_Sisters.html
School District of Grand Island T.I.E. Project
Abbott Sisters Lesson from Cindy Johnson, 4th Grade
at Newell
http://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v7n1/v7n1arts.html
University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Scarlet”, January 10, 1997
Abbott Sisters Profiled on Nebraska Public Radio
http://net.unl.edu/newsFeat/capview/cv_032002.html
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, March 20, 2002
http://www.yorknewstimes.com/stories/032202/edi_0322020006.shtml
York News-Times, March 22, 2002
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/public/news_releases/0310JaneGeskeAward.html
Nebraska Center for the Book Announces 2003 Jane
Geske Award
Grand Island Public Library and Foundation Honored
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f03/costin.html
Review of “Two Sisters for Social Justice: a Biography of
Grace and Edith Abbott” by Lela B. Costin
Abbott Family & Friends
http://www.stuhrmuseum.org/research/suffrage.htm
Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer, Research Department
Hall County's Pioneering Women, Social Reform and
Women's Sufferage
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/wawhh.html
University of Chicago Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Works about the Women of Hull-House
http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/hull-maxwell/vicinity/nws1/documents/html/20years/20yearscontents.htm
Twenty Years at Hull House
Jane Addams, 1910
Edith Abbott
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/092603/new_teaparty26.shtml
Friday, September 26, 2003
Tea party teaches history in many ways on Sunday
http://theindependent.com/stories/092803/opi_seggern28.shtml
Sunday, September 28, 2003
Happy birthday, Edith
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/092199/new_library21.html
Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Library to celebrate anniversary with 1880s birthday
party
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/062101/fea_edith21.html
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Edith Abbott
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWabbottE.htm
biography from Spartacus Educational
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/abbott.html
biography from Nebraska Department of Education
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/eabbott.html
biography from Women's Intellectual Contributions to the
Study of Mind and Society
http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/a/abbott.htm
biography from National Association of Social Workers
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Abbott_Edith.html
Women in American History by Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/cl_0807_abbott.html
American Journal of Sociology, July 1908
A Study of the Early History of Child Labor in
America
Edith Abbott
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/projects/centcat/centcats/fac/facch21_01.html
biography from University of Chicago
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001515/heroism/herodb.php%3faction=hero&HeroID=3
Heroism: Stories and Biographies
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/abbott/Breckinridge_Abbott_1912/Breckinridge_Abbott_1912_toc.html
The Delinquent Child and the Home
Sophonisba Breckinridge and Edith Abbott, 1912
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/%7Elward/abbott/Abbott_Breckinridge_1917/Abbott_Breckinridge_1917_toc.html
Truancy and Non-attendance in the Public Schools
Sophonisba Breckinridge and Edith Abbott, 1917
http://www.utoronto.ca/facsocwk/practicum/manual/bib/spitzer_designing.pdf
Journal of Social Work Education, Winter 2001, page 79
Edith Abbott Was Right: Designing Fieldwork
Experiences for Contemporary Health Care Practice
William Spitzer
http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/aboutssa/history/tour1d.shtml
School of Social Service Administration, University of
Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/hull-maxwell/vicinity/nws1/documents/html/breckinridge.htm
American Journal of Sociology v. XVII, no. 1 (July, 1911);
1-34
Chicago Housing Conditions: IV: The West Side
Revisited
Sophonisba Breckinridge and Edith Abbott
http://www.panesu.org/subject/notable/Edith-Abbott
ESU 13 & 14
Grace Abbott
http://www.unl.edu/plains/images/SorensenAbbott.pdf
A Prairie Childhood - the text of a newly-edited version of
Edith Abbott's memoir of Grace's childhood, from
Great Plains Quarterly, v. 23, no. 2 (Spring 2003),
Center for Great Plains Studies.
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/073102/new_abbott31.html
Wednesday, July 31, 2002
Grand Island to Celebrate Grace Abbott Park
http://www.theindependent.com/stories/062101/fea_grace21.html
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Grace Abbott
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWabbottG.htm
biography from Spartacus Educational
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/abbottg.html
biography from Nebraska Department of Education
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gabbott.html
biography from Women's Intellectual Contributions to the
Study of Mind and Society
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ab/Abbott-Gr.html
biography from Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
http://search.eb.com.au/women/articles/Abbott_Grace.html
Women in American History by Encyclopedia Britannica
http://search.eb.com.au/women/classic/C0030.html
Maternity and Infant Welfare: The United States
Grace Abbott for Encyclopedia Britannica
http://search.eb.com.au/women/classic/C0027.html
Juvenile Employment: United States
Grace Abbott for Encyclopedia Britannica
http://search.eb.com.au/women/classic/C0029.html
Law Related to Children: United States
Grace Abbott for Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ihy980454.html
Illinois History April 1998
Grace Abbott: Leader of the Immigrants
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded/abbott_1
biography from “America’s Story from America’s Library”
http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/aboutssa/history/tour1e.shtml
School of Social Service Administration, University of
Chicago
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/oversite/kidstuff/abbott.htm
Nebraska State Historical Society
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov17.html
Library of Congress American Memory Project
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/musdi:@field(DOCID+@lit(musdi205)):@@@$REF$
Children’s Bureau, Grace Abbott, Chief, 1928
Public Dance Halls, Their Regulation and Place in
the Recreation of Adolescents
http://www.nebraskachildren.org/GraceAbbottAward.htm
Nebraska Children and Families Foundation
http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/hull-maxwell/vicinity/nws1/documents/html/abbott-introduction.htm
biography from University of Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/hull-maxwell/vicinity/nws1/documents/html/abbott.htm
American Journal of Sociology, v. 15 (1909): 373-393
A Study of the Greeks in Chicago
Grace Abbott
http://net.unl.edu/nextexit/faith/grace_03.html
NETonline, Next Exit, Amazing Grace – Transcript
http://www.kdp.org/resources_laureate.asp?B=57
biography from Kappa Delta Pi |
