Readers who are primarily interested in Addams’ life, particularly in its more private aspects, should turn to Gioia Diliberto’s biography “A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams ...

The Early Life of Jane Addams.” “It was only when she started messing in men’s affairs that she got controversial.” Later in her life, with the country gripped in the Depression ...

One of the nation’s first housing projects is getting a new life as a public housing ... who left the South in the early 20th century. They moved into the Jane Addams Homes in 1960 after a ...

Look for deeper connections, rather than flitting through life without engagement ... to follow in the initial footsteps of Jane Addams, who funded her early work at Hull-House out of her own ...

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum historicizes the influential social settlement from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But little has been done to illuminate the innovative arts education ...