Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful Junior Class Oration on women as[...]

This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community center.[...]

Nearly a century before the advent of "multiculturalism," Jane Addams put forward her conception of the moral significance of diversity. Each member of a democracy, Addams believed, is under a moral obligation to seek out diverse experiences, making a daily effort to confront others' perspectives. M[...]

Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent world, Addams's life work offers resources for ac[...]

Although Jane Addams's Twenty Years at Hull-House is considered an American classic, her dozen books and hundreds of published articles have sometimes been thought of as quaint examples of an overly optimistic era. Beginning in the 1990s, feminist scholars rediscovered the vitality of Addams's socia[...]

A woman who worked among the immigrant poor of Chicago and later received a Nobel Prize for her good works shares two decades of her life among immigrant settlers, sweatshop workers, unwed mothers, the aged, and sick a century ago. Reprint.[...]

How did Jane Addams help poor people? Why did Jane Addams open a house to help others? What did Jane Addams do to demonstrate compassion? Find out in this introduction to the life of Jane Addams and how she demonstrated cooperation throughout her life.[...]