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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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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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Our Thanks to the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
I am delighted to announce that the Jane Addams Papers Project has been awarded a grant by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation! We are extremely grateful to the Foundation for their support of our work and their support for humanities research. The award for Making the Jane Addams Papers Accessible to the Public will support …
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Jane Addams and the Long 19th Amendment Project
I am very pleased to announce that the Jane Addams Digital Edition has shared content from our site with the Schlesinger Library’s Long 19th Amendment Project, an amazing digital portal that revolves around archival discovery, teaching innovation and collaborative scholarship on the history of gender and women’s rights. This project, supported by the Schlesinger Library …
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Saint Jane and the Wicked Wicks –An Audio Musical
Exciting news! On Thursday, August 26 at 8 pm CST, Saint Jane and the Wicked Wicks, an audio musical written and composed by Evanston playwright Kristin Lems, will open to the public at the website www.SaintJanePlay.com. The two-hour musical play, which can be enjoyed in one sitting or in four separate installments, is free, asking …
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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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