Jane Addams - Biographies
Jane Addams was founder of Hull House in Chicago, an early settlement house, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Biographies, portraits and essays about her personal life.
- Addams - General
- Addams and Hull House
- Addams Bibliographies
- Addams on Social Work
- Addams on Work and Labor
- Addams - Peace & Militarism
- Addams on Women's Issues
About Jane Addams
A biography on this site of Jane Addams, founder of Hull House and Nobel Laureate.
Jane Addams
Gale Group biography of Adams.
Jane Addams, Mother of the World
An online exhibit of photographs of Jane Addams, her family, and Hull-House, from the Swarthmore Library.
Portraits of Jane Addams
From the Jane Addams collection at Swarthmore college, twenty photos of Jane Addams from different years of her life. Some photos are with friends and groups.
The Nancy Grace of Her Time?
In this 2010 article in Slate.com, Ruth Graham notes that Jane Addams was quite controversial in her own time. She was not easily pigeon-holed into any category. She was a pragmatic progressive on some issues, an idealist on others.