Project Details
The Jane Addams Papers is a scholarly editing project publishing the correspondence and writings of social worker, settlement founder, peace activist, and Progressive icon Jane Addams. The freely accessible digital edition covers the years 1901-1935 and includes document images with searchable transcriptions, descriptive metadata to facilitate search, and links to identifications of the people, organizations, events and publications mentioned in the texts. It includes a growing collection of educational resources and visualizations, and a tool for crowdsourcing transcriptions.
Subjects or Themes
American History, Social Work, World War I, European History, Peace, Child Labor, Settlement Movement, Woman Suffrage, Women's Rights, Philosophy, Public Health, Education,
Project Language(s)
English with some French and German
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Content Type
Primary Sources, Images, Transcriptions, Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Biographies, Visualizations