Jane Addams Papers Project

FAIN: RQ-260746-18

Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623)
Cathy Moran Hajo (Project Director: December 2017 to present)

Preparation for publication of an online digital edition and print publication of volume 4 of the papers of social reformer and political activist Jane Addams (1860-1935). (24 months)

The Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey’s Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies publishes documents covering the years 1901-1935 in two formats. The first, a freely available digital edition, publishes images, transcriptions, and metadata for all correspondence and writings between 1901-1935. The second is the Selected Papers of Jane Addams, which provides transcribed and annotated versions of about 3% of the most historically significant texts. The digital edition is drawn from a digitization of an existing microfilm and the proceeds of an updated archival search. Another aim of the project is to serve as a lab for undergraduate students to gain practical experience in historical research, writing, public history, and digital humanities.

Associated Products

Jane Addams Digital Edition (Web Resource)
Title: Jane Addams Digital Edition
Author: Jane Addams
Author: Cathy Moran Hajo
Abstract: The Jane Addams Papers is a scholarly editing project publishing the correspondence and writings of Jane Addams from 1901-1935 in a freely accessible digital edition and in a selected print edition. The site has been built by editors working with students at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/
Primary URL Description: Digital Edition

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence, 1889-1900 (Book)
Title: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence, 1889-1900
Author: Jane Addams
Editor: Mary Lynn McCree Bryan
Editor: Maree De Angury
Editor: Ellen Skerrett
Editor: with the assistance of Richard R. Seidell
Abstract: In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a vision for achieving a more secure, satisfying, and hopeful life for all. Eleven years later, her “scheme,” as she called it, had become Hull-House and stood as the template for the creation of the American settlement house movement while Addams’s writings and speeches attracted a growing audience to her ideas and work. The third volume in this series documents Addams’s creation of Hull-House and her rise to worldwide fame as the acknowledged female leader of progressive reform. It also provides evidence of her growing commitment to pacifism. Here we see Addams forming lasting relationships with her Hull-House neighbors and the Chicago community of civic, political, and social leaders, even as she matured as an organizer, leader, and fund-raiser, and as a sought-after speaker, and writer. The papers reveal her positions on reform challenges while illuminating her strategies, successes, and responses to failures. At the same time, the collection brings to light Addams’s private life. Letters and other documents trace how many of her Hull-House and reform alliances evolved into deep, lasting friendships and also explore the challenges she faced as her role in her own family life became more complex. Fully annotated and with many illustrations, The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, Volume 3 is a portrait of a woman as she changed—and as she changed history.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/selected-papers-of-jane-addams-volume-3-creating-hull-house-and-an-international-presence-1889-1900/oclc/1088907980&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/75kmn6ra9780252040979.html
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780252040979
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Jane Addams Papers Project (Blog Post)
Title: Jane Addams Papers Project
Author: Anya Jabour,
Author: Cathy Moran Hajo
Author: Stacy Pratt McDermott
Author: Sara Catherine Lichon
Author: Emma Lucier-Keller
Author: Liane Malinowski
Author: Mary Waller
Author: Justice Levine
Author: Patricia M. Shieds
Abstract: The website includes a blog contributed to by project staff, Addams scholars and others.
Date: 10/1/2018
Primary URL: http://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/blog/
Primary URL Description: Website
Website: Jane Addams Papers

Jane Addams Papers Project National History Day Guides (Web Resource)
Title: Jane Addams Papers Project National History Day Guides
Author: Rene DeLora
Abstract: National History Day Guides using the Jane Addams Papers Digital Edition offer students and teachers suggestions and links to materials on the various contest themes. These guides are updated each year with new themes and new published documents.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/exhibits/
Primary URL Description: This link takes you to the education portal where all the guides and other materials are located.

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