Auteur: Addams Jane Addams

In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a vision for achieving a more secure, satisfying, and …

A bedrock text of American progressivism, Twenty Years at Hull-House tells the dramatic story of how social reformer Jane Addams cofounded and developed the Chicago settlement house into a community …

First published in 1922 during the "Red Scare, " by which time Jane Addams’s pacifist efforts had adversely affected her popularity as an author and social reformer, Peace and Bread in Time …

Venturing into Usefulness, the second volume of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, documents the experience of this major American historical figure, intellectual, social activist, and author betwee …

Published in 1912 on the heels of Twenty Years at Hull-House and at the height of Jane Addams’s popularity, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil assesses the vulnerability of the rural and immigrant …