The Jane Addams Papers Project

FAIN: RQ-271126-20

Ramapo College of New Jersey (Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623)
Cathy Moran Hajo (Project Director: November 2019 to present)

Preparation of an open access digital edition of social reformer Jane Addams's writings and correspondence from 1901-1935 and completing research on Volume 4 of the Selected Papers of Jane Addams. (24 months)

The Jane Addams Papers Project is publishing a free digital edition of writings and correspondence from 1901-1935 and completing research on Volume 4 of the Selected Papers of Jane Addams.

Associated Products

Making the Jane Addams's Papers Accessible to New Audiences (Book Section)
Title: Making the Jane Addams's Papers Accessible to New Audiences
Author: Cathy Moran Hajo
Editor: Maurice Hamington
Abstract: Scholars have been the only ones able to easily access primary sources on Jane Addams and her work for social justice, social work, woman suffrage, immigrants, and peace. Over the past forty-five years, the Jane Addams Papers Project has been working to expand the audience for these critical papers. Whether through microfilm, print, or digital publication, the goal has been the same -- to bring Addams's words, ideas and world to a large and varied public. With digital technology we have been able to expand access dramatically in the last five years. The Jane Addams Digital edition offers images of the documents, transcribed to be readable and searchable, indexed by subject and tags, and contextualized with identifications of the people, organizations and events discussed. Our goal is to do more than provide the documents to the public. We are developing tools to encourage creative use of the materials – lesson plans for middle-school students, guides for National History Day projects, and crowdsourcing tools to enable the public to participate in the project. We will continue to expand these offerings as more materials are published and hope to invite scholars, teachers, and students to contribute their analyses to the educational part of the site. By making the data that underlies the edition accessible to digital humanities scholars, we will develop datasets that can be used by open source tools to analyze and interpret the papers. From maps that plot Addams’s correspondence and associates, to social network visualizations and text analyses of her speeches and correspondence, the digital edition will encourage new questions and analysis that would not have been possible a short time ago. We look forward to working with users of all ages and interests in order to bring Jane Addams into the 21st century.
Year: 2021
Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams

Reviews in Digital Humanities (Article)
Title: Reviews in Digital Humanities
Author: Cathy Moran Hajo
Abstract: Discussion of a recent review of the digital edition
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2022/02/reviews-in-digital-humanities/
Primary URL Description: Jane Addams Digital Edition
Access Model: Open
Format: Other
Publisher: Jane Addams Papers Website

Every Day an Easter Bonnet (Article)
Title: Every Day an Easter Bonnet
Author: Stacy Lynn
Abstract: Article discussing Jane Addams's wardrobe and the implications of being taken seriously when a woman.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2022/04/every-day-an-easter-bonnet/
Access Model: Open
Format: Other
Publisher: Jane Addams Papers Project Website

A Week in the Life of Jane Addams, April 9-15, 1906 (Article)
Title: A Week in the Life of Jane Addams, April 9-15, 1906
Author: Stacy Lynn
Abstract: Lynn demonstrates the busy life Addams had in 1906 working with the Chicago School Board, Hull-House, and other activities.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2022/06/a-week-in-the-life-of-jane-addams-april-9-15-1906/
Access Model: Open
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Jane Addams Papers Project Website
Publisher: Jane Addams Papers Project Website

Jane Addams on Guns (Article)
Title: Jane Addams on Guns
Author: Stacy Lynn
Abstract: Lynn combs through Addams's statements on guns.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2022/07/jane-addams-on-guns/
Access Model: Open
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Jane Addams Papers Project Website
Publisher: Jane Addams Papers Project Website

A Reasonable Request (Article)
Title: A Reasonable Request
Author: Stacy Lynn
Abstract: Lynn discusses the role of suffragists and how specific women advanced the cause.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2022/08/a-reasonable-request/
Access Model: Open
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Jane Addams Papers Project Website
Publisher: Jane Addams Papers Project Website

Who Are We Editing For? How Digital Publication Changes the Role of the Scholarly Editor (Book Section)
Title: Who Are We Editing For? How Digital Publication Changes the Role of the Scholarly Editor
Author: Cathy Moran Hajo
Abstract: Chapter that explores the way that editing changes when open access to documents is possible, looking at how to reach younger audiences and the kinds of concessions editors might want to consider.
Year: 2022
Access Model: forthcoming
Book Title: Digital Editing & Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (forthcoming)

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