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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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Jane Addams and the Presidential Election of 1916
What a difference four years and a world war made in the political opinions of Jane Addams. In the Presidential Election of 1912, Jane Addams had supported Theodore Roosevelt and the new Progressive Party, in part because Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Republican William Howard Taft refused to add a plank for woman suffrage to their …
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Jane Addams and the Presidential Election of 1912
One of the most fascinating decisions Jane Addams ever made was to enter the fray of partisan politics and back Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party bid for the Presidency in 1912. She had endorsed political candidates before, but her participation as a delegate to the Progressive Party Convention in Chicago, her role in seconding Roosevelt’s nomination, …
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We are hiring! The Project seeks a full-time, grant-funded Assistant Editor to join our work on the Project’s digital edition and on the Selected Papers of Jane Addams. Please share this opportunity with potential candidates in your networks. The successful candidate will work in-person at Ramapo College of New Jersey, in Mahwah, NJ. This position …
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Hull House and Benny Goodman
Because of Hull-House’s strong association with social and political causes, it can be easy for many to overlook the settlement house’s invaluable contributions to the arts. In bustling early 20th century Chicago, Hull-House served as a prime location for artistic expression and development. The experimental art classes of Dorothy Loeb at the settlement allowed …
Reconsidering Jane Addams: A Portrait of Anti-Imperialism?
Last July marked another passing of the Association for Documentary Editing’s yearly conference, this time taking place in Washington, D.C. Our nation’s capital has endless museums, attractions, and performances to explore, but there was only one woman I wanted to meet: Jane Addams, of course. The National Portrait Gallery houses the only known full-color image …
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The Persona of Jane Addams
In 1908 when Jane Addams was speaking at a dinner in Chicago, she expressed her frustration with women who ridicule suffragists: There are women who will laugh at us for our interest in the ballot, and who will then give absorbed hours, in the privacy of their rooms, to great electrical massage machines, face-steaming engines, …
In a sense it is exaggerated nationalism which makes the present economic problem so insoluble, keeping the world divided, poverty-stricken and fear-ridden. The desire of each nation to be as prosperous as possible, if need be at the expense of all others, is responsible for tariffs, administrative protection, quotas, export bounty, preferential treaties and every conceivable form of interference with a world wide economy. Such an uncritical estimate of nationality constantly threatens the nascent bonds of international comity upon which world peace demands.
Jane Addams, Statement on Nationalism, January 23, 1934.
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