Jane Addams Books

Jane Addams explores how city streets, commercial entertainment, work, and community institutions shape young people’s hopes and conduct.

Jane Addams examines how democratic obligations reshape charity, family life, domestic service, industry, education, and political reform.

Jane Addams recounts Hull-House’s beginnings and the encounters with migration, poverty, education, and civic reform that shaped its work.

Jane Addams relates the pursuit of peace to city government, industrial relations, immigrant life, women’s participation, and the protection of children.

Jane Addams explores how women's memories reshape hardship, industrial life, social conventions, and opposition to war.

Jane Addams examines commercial sexual exploitation through labor conditions, civic responsibility, public policy, and the education of young people.