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The Jane Addams Papers is a scholarly editing project publishing the correspondence and writings of Jane Addams from 1901-1935 in a freely accessible digital edition and in a selected print edition. The site has been built by editors, working with students at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
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Scholar’s Corner: Patricia Shields
We want to thank Patricia Shields for sharing some of her research on Jane Addams! Jane Addams’s Social Ethics (Video) Patricia Shields on Jane Addams’s Social Ethics, April 24, 2018 https://hdl.handle.net/10877/8366 Recovering Jane Addams: Ethics, Social Work, Social Justice and Peace (PDF) Patricia M. Shields, Recovering Jane Addams: Ethics, Social Work, Social Justice and Peace, …
Jane Addams, Karma Yogi
It was my first weekend of an intensive 200-hour yoga training course. I was sitting with my yogi cohorts on my mat after an energetic yoga flow. We were listening to our first yoga humanities lecture on the history of yoga. Yeah! History is always the very best place to start when exploring any new …
Two Chautauqua Summers
Jane Addams left Illinois for Chautauqua, New York, on Friday, July 4, 1902, at 3 p.m. Traveling on the New York Central Railroad, perhaps in a sleeping car, she had at least one book with her to read, as she always traveled with books. Onboard the train, Addams enjoyed the countryside passing by outside the …
Guest Post: Women’s Activism Before the Second Wave: The Case of Florence Scala’s Leadership in the Working Class Neighborhood of Hull-House
By Rima Lunin Schultz In 1963, as Ann Keating recounted in her prior blog, Florence Scala had already been engaged as a social activist for several decades in the neighborhood made famous by Jane Addams. She had participated as a leader in the grassroots organization of her community on the Near West Side, had brought …
Guest post: Florence Giovangelo Scala, Hull-House and Neighborhood Planning
By Ann Keating. Note by the author: Rima Lunin Schultz and I have been working for six years on a manuscript entitled: In the Shadow of Jane Addams: Planning in a Working-Class Neighborhood, 1889-1963. We have encountered many interesting characters, including Florence Scala. Scala is famous for leading the unsuccessful fight against construction of the …
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Guest Post: Democratic Ensembles: Spoken Art and Politics at Chicago Settlement Houses, 1890-1920
By Fiona Maxwell, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago. In the Chicago settlement house movement, performance and sociability supplied a means and a metaphor for reimagining democracy as a collective project in service of the common welfare. My recently completed PhD dissertation, “Democratic Ensembles: Spoken Art and Politics at Chicago Settlement Houses, 1890-1920,” …
Sometimes I think the materialism we talk so much about in America amounts to just this. We do take the boots and the shoes and the dresses, which industry and invention have made cheap and deck ourselves out in them, but we don’t have any sympathy, any communal feeling with the people at whose sacrifice they are, many of them made.
Jane Addams, Address to the Women’s Trade Union League, March 26, 1905
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