Sandra Opdycke is the associate director of the Institute for Innovation in Social Policy at Vassar College. A student of Mark Carnes, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1995 and has lectured and written extensively on urban history, women's history and public health, including No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City Since 1900 (Oxford, 1999) and The Routledge Historical Atlas of Women in America (Routledge, 2000). She has also contributed 70 essays to American National Biography (Oxford, 1999), which was edited by authors John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes. 

Introduction

Part I: Inventing a Life of Service

CHAPTER 1 FINDING THE PATH

CHAPTER 2 REACHING OUT TO THE NEIGHBORS

CHAPTER 3 PUTTING DEMOCRACY INTO PRACTICE

CHAPTER 4 CHOOSING COLLABORATION

Part II: Working for Reform

 CHAPTER 5 FOCUSING ON WOMEN

CHAPTER 6 NOURISHING THE SPIRIT OF YOUNG PEOPLE

CHAPTER 7 SPEAKING UP FOR LABOR

CHAPTER 8 TAKING PROGRESSIVISM TO THE NATION

Part III: Broader Horizons

CHAPTER 9 TRYING TO STOP A WAR

CHAPTER 10 SEARCHING FOR HOPE IN THE 1920S

CHAPTER 11 LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACKWARD

CHAPTER 12 LEAVING A LEGACY

Discussion Questions

A Note on the Sources

Index

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