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Digital Edition Papers Project Jane Addams Papers Project Jane Addams Papers Project Search for: Search Menu Jane Addams Bibliography Chronology Hull-House Residents More Addams Resources About the Project Project Staff Copyright Document Search Support Presentations Get Involved Interns/Volunteers Donate Publications Digital Edition The Jane Addams Papers, 1860-1960 (Microfilm) Selected Papers, Volume 1 Selected Papers, Volume 2 Selected Papers, Volume 3 Selected Papers, Volumes 4-7 Blog Subscribe for News Scroll down to contentHome Welcome to the Jane Addams Papers Project The Jane Addams Papers is a scholarly editing project publishing the correspondence and writings of Jane Addams from 1901-1935 in a freely accessible digital edition and in a selected print edition. The site has been built by editors, working with students at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Learn more Researching Jane Addams Go to Digital Edition Biography Jane Addams Resources Bibliography Chronology Hull House and Benny Goodman James LaForge April 17, 2024 Because of Hull-House’s strong association with social and political causes, it can be easy for many to overlook the settlement house’s invaluable contributions to the arts. In bustling early 20th century Chicago, Hull-House served as a prime location for artistic expression and development. The experimental art classes of Dorothy Loeb at the settlement allowed … Continue reading "Hull House and Benny Goodman" Read More Reconsidering Jane Addams: A Portrait of Anti-Imperialism? Victoria Sciancalepore April 4, 2024 Last July marked another passing of the Association for Documentary Editing’s yearly conference, this time taking place in Washington, D.C. Our nation’s capital has endless museums, attractions, and performances to explore, but there was only one woman I wanted to meet: Jane Addams, of course. The National Portrait Gallery houses the only known full-color image … Continue reading "Reconsidering Jane Addams: A Portrait of Anti-Imperialism?" Read More The Persona of Jane Addams Stacy Lynn February 29, 2024 In 1908 when Jane Addams was speaking at a dinner in Chicago, she expressed her frustration with women who ridicule suffragists: There are women who will laugh at us for our interest in the ballot, and who will then give absorbed hours, in the privacy of their rooms, to great electrical massage machines, face-steaming engines, … Continue reading "The Persona of Jane Addams" Read More Jane Addams and the Roosevelts James LaForge January 17, 2024 Few families in the history of American politics have reached the acclaim and historical scrutiny bestowed upon the Roosevelts. From Theodore Roosevelt uttering the phrase It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose” after an assassination attempt at a speech — which has now been immortalized into American legend next to the likes … Continue reading "Jane Addams and the Roosevelts" Read More Jane Addams on Television Stacy Lynn December 7, 2023 During her lifetime, Jane Addams was famous throughout the United States and around the world. Known for Hull-House and as the leader of the American social settlement movement, respected for her wide-ranging reform activities, and beloved for her commitment to economic, political, and social justice for all, Addams became a household name. Reformers, educators, politicians, … Continue reading "Jane Addams on Television" Read More Hearing Addams Speak Cathy Moran Hajo November 1, 2023 This is a guest post by Marilyn Fischer, Professor Emerita at the University of Dayton, who specializes in political philosophy and American pragmatism. She has edited Jane Addams’s writings on peace and is the author of Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing Democracy and Social Ethics (2019). She is currently working on two additional volumes that … Continue reading "Hearing Addams Speak" Read More There has been a long line of loyal Americans, doubtless however, expressing themselves from time to time as I do now, in public opposition to certain public acts of public officials. The freedom to do this is, to my mind, the very formulation of self-government. Jane Addams to Robert A. Gunn, February 18, 1920. Support the project Your support helps support the salaries of student workers and research costs, so we can make Jane Addams papers accessible to the broadest possible audience. Donate Jane Addams Bibliography Chronology Hull-House Residents More Addams Resources About the Project Project Staff Copyright Document Search Support Presentations Get Involved Interns/Volunteers Donate Publications Digital Edition The Jane Addams Papers, 1860-1960 (Microfilm) Selected Papers, Volume 1 Selected Papers, Volume 2 Selected Papers, Volume 3 Selected Papers, Volumes 4-7 Blog Subscribe for News Jane Addams Papers Project Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 07430 chajo@ramapo.edu...