This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the current standard . Jane Addams (6 September 1860 - 21 May 1935) American social reformer...
(Laura) Jane Addams (1860-1935), a social reformer, internationalist, and feminist, was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for peace. Best known as the founder of Chicago's Hull House, one of the first social settlements in North America,...
(Laura) Jane Addams was a social reformer and a pacifist, a woman ahead of her time in realizing that caring intervention may be the best crime deterrent. She is known as the founder of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in...
As social worker, reformer, and pacifist, Jane Addams (1860-1935) was the "beloved lady" of American reform. She founded the most famous settlement house in American history, Hull House in Chicago. Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, III., on Sept. 6,...
(b. September 6, 1860; d. May 21, 1935) Reformer, advocate for peace and social justice, lecturer, and writer. Jane Addams began her public career in 1889 as the co-founder and leader of the Chicago social settlement Hull-House. Between 1890 and...
Jane Addams (1860–1935) is remembered primarily as the feisty American founder of the Settlement House Movement, which sought to challenge the industrial and urban order of the period to achieve social and environmental reforms. Inspired by a...
Born in Illinois, Jane Addams is remembered as an influential social activist and feminist icon; she was the most prominent member of a notable group of female social reformers who were active during the first half of the twentieth century. Foremost...
Jane Addams Born September 6, 1860 Cedarville, Illinois Died May 21, 1935 Chicago, Illinois Founder of Hull House and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Jane Addams came from a wealthy, influential family and chose to live...
Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House Movement and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the eighth of nine children...
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books, $28, 328 pp. She wore a full-length black dress almost every day of her adult life, with puffy sleeves extending to her wrists. A bored, wealthy young woman, she...
The Education of Jane Addams. By Victoria Bissell Brown (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 421. Illus., notes, bib., index. Cloth $39.95). Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy. By Louise W. Knight (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp....
Today is Sunday, Dec. 10, the 344th day of 2006. There are 21 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to...
In the following introduction to her book on Addams's influence on education, Lagemann offers a review of Addams's own education and growth as a thinker.
