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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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A Week in the Life of Jane Addams, April 9-15, 1906
Over the past couple of years, as I’ve worked to contextualize the documents we have chosen to publish in Volume 4 of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, I have made a good effort to decipher Jane Addams’s engagement diary. She kept an annual engagement calendar during most of her years in Chicago, although some …
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Every Day an Easter Bonnet
A man once asked me if I thought anyone would see me as a serious scholar wearing such heavy eyeliner. I am sorry now that I did not defend myself to him. But I was a young scholar then, lacking confidence. He was an old scholar, lacking good manners. People called him a curmudgeon, but …
Reviews in Digital Humanities
Thanks to Núria Sara Miras Boronat for her review of the Jane Addams Papers Project, published in the most recent release of Reviews in Digital Humanities (Vol. 3, No. 2, Feb. 14, 2022). We particularly appreciated the kudos, below: JADE is one of the most important interventions that has occurred in the last decade for …
Guest Post: Jane Addams and the Great War
By Neil Lanctot The onset of a brutal global war in the summer of 1914 shocked Jane Addams and other American pacifists who were certain their cause was gaining widespread acceptance. “Nobody who was not a mature person…can realize now how remote, how unbelievable, a European war then seemed,” her friend Alice Hamilton later wrote. …
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The Patron Saint of Gift Giving
In June 1907, Jane Addams sent her sister Alice Haldeman handmade bags for her birthday. Made by a Hull-House neighbor, likely a poor immigrant, the bags were a typical gift from Addams, who enjoyed sending handmade goods, particularly from the Hull-House Shops. Items like linens and wooden or metal household objects were typical choices for …
Fidelity, Accuracy, and the Delicate Balance
A documentary editor’s top priority is unwavering accuracy to their collection’s text. Wait, that doesn’t sound right. A documentary editor’s goal should be the regularizing of words and writing styles so as to be easily read and searched by a reader. But that doesn’t sound quite right, either. These are the two schools of thought …
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There has been a long line of loyal Americans, doubtless however, expressing themselves from time to time as I do now, in public opposition to certain public acts of public officials. The freedom to do this is, to my mind, the very formulation of self-government.
Jane Addams to Robert A. Gunn, February 18, 1920.
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