On The Jungle
Posted: May 28, 2012 Filed under: academics | Tags: Edward Bellamy, Gilded Age, Hull-House, Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, Jungle, Progressive Era, Pure Food and Drug Act, Upton Sinclair Leave a comment
Well! I have just read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Not the most relaxing subject matter for the first book of summer break, but I was eager to read it after studying the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in America in my latest history class. During the semester, we read Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams and looked at some photographs by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, and all of the above piqued my interest in urbanization, industrialization and immigration in the early 1900s. Read the rest of this entry »
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