Addams, Jane
(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 o...
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Jane Addams
Born September 6, 1860
Cedarville, Illinois
Died May 21, 1935
Chicago, Illinois
Founder of Hull-House and of modern social work
Jane Addams. Library of Congress.
"Teaching in...
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Addams, Jane (1860-1935)
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 reformer...
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Jane Addams
Born September 6, 1860 (Cedarville, Illinois)
Died May 21, 1935 (Chicago, Illinois)
Social worker
Jane Addams founded the pioneering social settlement of Hull House in Chicago in 1889. It ...
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Addams, Jane
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 per...
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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 fr...
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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.Jan...
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(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, on...
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(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 ...
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Jane Addams is best known for her efforts to further humanitarian reform and for founding Hull-House in 1889, a settlement house that grew to a complex of thirteen buildings covering an entire city bl...
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In the following essay, Arbuthnot reviews Democracy and Social Ethics with a focus on its economic and political insights.
Among the matters of particularly economic interest in Miss Addams's [...
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In the following essay, Hurt examines Twenty Years at Hull-House as a work of literary self-examination.
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It may seem somewhat wrong-headed to attempt to examine Jane Addams' Twenty Years at H...
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In the following essay, Hecht reviews the history of the Hull-House Theatre, including political clashes over its administration.
Chicago's Hull-House Theatre developed specifically to combat t...
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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.
In September of 1889, Jane Addam...
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In the following excerpt, Stroup presents Addams as a pioneer in developing the framework of social welfare in America.
Jane Addams, the founder of famed Hull House, a pioneer in the settlement house ...
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In the following excerpt, Abbott compares and contrasts Addams's autobiography with that of a feminist writer and contemporary, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
The autobiography would seem to be the ...
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In the following excerpt, Elshtain offers a critique of Addams's career from a feminist standpoint outside the traditional left-wing framework.
From a standpoint of jaded modern sophistication,...
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In the following essay, Lehmkuhl treats Addams's two Hull House books as historical narratives and examines them in the context of Charles A. Beard's "new history."
Since t...
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In the following essay, which was first presented at a conference of the Norwegian Nobel Institute in 1992, Alonso compares and contrasts the career of Addams with that of another radical pacifist and...
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In the following essay, Knight presents Addams's views on charity, both as a member of a wealthy family and as a humanitarian seeking to raise funds.
The title of this paper is in a sense offer...
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In the following essay, Schott contrasts the pacifism of William James with the much more radical anti-war views of Addams.
On the evening of 7 October 1904, some 500 members of the Universal Peace Co...
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In the following review, the critic considers Twenty Years at Hull-House primarily from the standpoint of the biographical information it offers on Addams.
"Which is better," asks Profes...
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In the following essay, Sawaya compares the nonfiction portrayal of a household in Twenty Years at Hull-House with a fictional one in the work of Sarah Orne Jewett
In her preface to the 1893 edition o...
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In the following excerpt, DeKoven draws parallels between the lives and of Addams and Gertrude Stein.
An enormous gulf would seem to divide Jane Addams's immigrant Chicago from Gertrude Stein&#...
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In the following review of Twenty Years at Hull-House, Hall concentrates on the role models who instilled in Addams a spirit of selflessness.
[Twenty Years at Hull-House] is invaluable as a human docu...
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The following essay appraises Twenty Years at Hull-House as not just a personal account of one life, but of a time and place.
[Twenty Years at Hull-House is] a book which is assured of a place among t...
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In the following essay, Dewey comments on the timely reissue of Peace and Bread at the end of World War II.
The present republication of Peace and Bread is peculiarly timely. Some of the external reas...
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In the following essay, which was originally presented as the first William I. Hull Lecture at Swarthmore College on 16 October 1960, Curti discusses Addams's views on the self and the place of...
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In the following excerpt, Herman explores the path by which Addams moved from philanthropic works to pacifism.
Cease to be the shadow of man and of his passion of pride and destruction. Have a clear ...
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In the following essay, Davis introduces a new edition of The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets with a brief recap of Addams's biography, as well as details of the book's history.
Jan...
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In the following essay, Phillips identifies Addams's intellectual forebears, a group that ranges from Abraham Lincoln to Auguste Comte.
Perhaps as a final tribute to a nineteenth century indivi...
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