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Biographies include James Weber Linn, Jane Addams: A Biography (1935, reissued 1968), written by her nephew; John C. Farrell, Beloved Lady: A History of Jane Addamsâ Ideas on Reform and Peace (1967); Daniel Levine, Jane Addams and the Liberal Tradition (1971, reprinted 1980); and Allen F. Davis, American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (1973). Mary Jo Deegan, Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892â1918 (1988), explores Addamsâs role in the development of American sociology.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | May 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Jane Addams, Secular Saint, Scorned During WWI. | Apr 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: 1914-1918-Online - International Encyclopedia of the First World War - Jane Addams. | Dec 15, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. | Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - Jane Addams and the 1894 Pullman Strike. | Sep 12, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. | Aug 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jane Addams Papers Project - About Jane Addams. | Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - Chicago Stories - Jane Addams: Together We Rise. | May 05, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Jane Addams. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Endowment for the Humanities - Jane Addams: A Hero for Our Time. | Dec 24, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Iowa State University - Archives of Women's Political Communication - Jane Addams. | Nov 08, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: New-York Historical Society - Women and the American Story - Life Story: Jane Addams, 1860-1935. | Oct 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Jane Addams. | Dec 16, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 03, 2021 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Oct 16, 2019 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Jan 26, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: History of Social Work - Biography of Jane Addams. | Mar 27, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: American National Biography Online - Biography of Jane Addams. | Mar 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Social Welfare History Project - Biography of Jane Addams. | Mar 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: America's Story from America's Library - Biography of Jane Addams. | Mar 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Illinois at Chicago - Biography of Jane Addams. | Oct 04, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame - Biography of Jane Addams. | Oct 04, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Biography of Jane Addams. | Oct 04, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Jane Addams. | Aug 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Jane Addams. | Aug 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Jane Addams. | Aug 23, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Women's Hall of Fame - Biography of Jane Addams. | Aug 23, 2013 | ||
| Added photograph of Hull House. | Sep 11, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Jane Addams. | Feb 27, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Electric Scotland - David Hume. | Feb 27, 2012 | ||
| Added a photograph of Jane Addams from 1914. | Feb 18, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: American Studies at the University of Virginia - "Twenty Years at Hull-House" by Jane Addams. | Jun 29, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: A Celebration of Women Writers - "Twenty Years at Hull-House" by Jane Addams. | Jun 02, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 23, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 07, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jan 08, 1999 |
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