Jane Addams ca. 1889Works by Jane Addams

Books:

  • Addams, Jane. Democracy and Social Ethics. 1902. Reprint. With introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

  • Addams, Jane. The Excellent Becomes the Permanent. New York: Macmillan Co., 1932.

  • Addams, Jane. The Long Road of Woman's Memory. 1916. Reprint. With introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

  • Addams, Jane. My Friend, Julia Lathrop. 1935. Reprint. With introduction by Anne Firor Scott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2004.

  • Addams, Jane. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. 1912. Reprint. With introduction by Katherine Joslin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

  • Addams, Jane. Newer Ideals of Peace. 1907. Reprint. Peace Movement in America Series. New York: J.S. Ozer, 1972.

  • Addams, Jane. Peace and Bread in Time of War. 1922. Reprint. With introduction by Katherine Joslin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

  • Addams, Jane. The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House. New York: Macmillan Co., 1930.

  • Addams, Jane. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. 1909. Reprint. With introduction by Allen F. Davis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

  • Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. 1910. Reprint. With introduction and notes by James Hurt. Prairie State Books. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

  • Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. 1910. Abridged reprint. Edited and with an introduction by Victoria Bissell Brown. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.

  • Addams, Jane, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton. Women at the Hague. 1915. Reprint. With introduction by Harriet Hyman Alonso. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.


Edited Collections of Essays:

In addition to several books, Jane Addams wrote hundreds of articles on a vast array of subjects, including aspects of settlement house life, industrial conditions, juvenile justice, suffrage, civil rights, municipal reform and planning, immigration and ethnicity, child welfare, international peace, and many more. These articles were originally published in both scholarly journals and popular magazines that reached a wide audience. A good selection are reprinted in the following collections:

  • Addams, Jane. The Jane Addams Reader. Edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain. New York: Basic Books, 2002

  • Lasch, Christopher, ed. The Social Thought of Jane Addams. American Heritage Series. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1965.

  • Various Essays by Jane Addams may be found on the website
    http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/

 

To learn more about Jane Addams and Hull-House:
Biography of Jane Addams
Chronology of Jane Addams's Life
Near West Side Neighborhood Chronology

Suggestions for additional reading:
Works about Jane Addams
Works about Jane Addams For Young Readers
Works about Hull-House
Works about the Women of Hull-House

 

Pictured above: Jane Addams ca. 1889. University of Illinois at Chicago, The University Library, Jane Addams Memorial Collection, JAMC neg. 15