Jane Addams (1860-1935)
The youngest child of an affluent family in Illinois, a feminist social reformer, philosopher, charter member of the NAACP, and educator. Addams was friend to immigrants and co-founder of the first settlement house in the United States, Hull House in Chicago, Illinois and the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism promoting peace.
You Are Invited !
Educating Women invites historians of educational thought to contribute a biographical-philosophical gloss of the life and work of this educating woman.
Below are some resources available for such educational inquiry.
Online Sites:
- Jane Addams Hull House Association: http://www.hullhouse.org
- Noble Prize Organization: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html
- Hull House Museum at the University of Illinois-Chicago: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection: http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/
Digital Works:
- Digital Books.com:
- Guttenberg Project: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a602
Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical notes/Jane Addams; Illustrated by Norah Hamilton; With and Introduction by James Hurt. Chicago; University of Illinois, 1990.
Addams, Jane. On Education: With a New Introduction by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. New Brunswick, U.S.A.: Transaction, 1994.
Elshtain, Jean, Bethke.The Jane Addams Reader By Jane Addams. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2002.
Stember, Eleanor J. The Women of Hull House. New York, NY: SUNY, 1997.
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