Character Catalog

Jane Addams's first and most significant achievement: the creation of this community center in Chicago revolutionized American social welfare and became a model replicated around the world.

Addams's first major work, in which she lays the philosophical foundations for social work as a democratic act. This book profoundly influenced American progressive thought at the turn of the twentieth century.

Addams develops an original vision of peace grounded in social justice and international solidarity rather than military balance, anticipating the debates that would surround the League of Nations.

A memoir and account of two decades of social work, this bestseller transformed Jane Addams into a national figure and brought the ideals of the settlement movement to a broad American audience.

Addams was one of the founding signatories of the NAACP, the first national American organization dedicated to defending the civil rights of African Americans, reflecting her early commitment to antiracism.

An account of the international women's peace conference held at The Hague during World War I, which Addams chaired. The book documents the international women's pacifist resistance movement.

The autobiographical sequel covering the years 1910–1930, in which Addams analyzes the social transformations of American society and the challenges faced by the pacifist movement in the shadow of two world wars.

It is hard to tell just when the very simple plan which afterward developed into the Settlement began to form itself in my mind. It may have been even before I went to Europe for the second time, but I gradually became convinced that it would be a good thing to rent a house in a part of the city where many primitive and actual needs are found.

We are slowly learning that social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself... The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics.

The long struggle of women toward full citizenship, while seemingly remote from the peace movement, is in reality a basic factor in the elimination of war... Women, who have always borne the heaviest burden of war, know something of its cost.

We have learned as common knowledge that much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people... The educational problem is perhaps the most difficult one in our current situation.

Founded in 1889 at 800 South Halsted Street, Hull House was the center of Jane Addams's entire life's work. This complex of buildings offered nurseries, cultural clubs, language classes, and medical clinics in the heart of Chicago's immigrant neighborhood.

Jane Addams's small hometown, where her father John Addams served as an influential state senator. It was here that she received a careful upbringing and developed her earliest moral and civic convictions.

The world's first settlement house, founded in 1884 in London's East End. Addams's visit there in 1887 was a turning point: she drew directly from this model when creating Hull House two years later.

It was in Oslo that Jane Addams received the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1931, crowning forty years of social work and international pacifist activism.

Jane Addams made regular trips to Washington to testify before Congress, advocate for social legislation — including child labor laws, workplace safety, and women's suffrage — and meet with successive presidents.