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A New Challenge for the Scholar, June 14, 1922 (excerpt)

A shortened version of Addams's commencement speech at Rockford College. It was published on July 12, 1922.

Education Lectures Women's Rights

A New Challenge to the Scholar, June 14, 1922

Addams offers a commencement speech at Rockford College's 75th anniversary, telling of its history.

Education Lectures Women's Rights

A New Challenge to the Scholar, June 14, 1922

Addams offers a commencement speech at Rockford College's 75th anniversary, telling of its history.

Education Lectures Women's Rights

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Chapter I, November 1911

Arguing that white slavery requires an organized movement to defeat it, Addams provides examples from cases in Chicago. This is the first in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.

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A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Chapter III: Lack of Moral Education and Its Dangers, January 1912

Addams expounds upon the role of religious education in keeping youth from vice and examines the difficult standards to which young women are held. This is the third in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil later in the year.

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A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Chapter IV: Tragedies of Lonely and Unprotected Girls, February 1912

Addams identifies the dangers that face young women alone in a city and discusses the lack of support for them. This is the fourth in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil later in the year.

Address Before the Nineteenth Century Club, October 14, 1907 (excerpts)

Addams argues that woman suffrage might impact the plight of fallen women who are preyed upon by men.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Morality Prostitution Woman Suffrage

Address on the League of Nations, February 11, 1919

Addams addresses the Great Lakes Congress of the League to Enforce Peace, arguing for the importance of international cooperation after the war. The meeting was held in Chicago.

Charity Internationalism Lectures Peace

Address to Open National Child Labor Committee Campaign, February 3, 1919 (excerpt) Also known as Girl's Part in Reconstruction Work, February 3, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams opened the membership campaign for the National Child Labor Committee in Pittsburgh and spoke to the Western Pennsylvania League of Women Workers on the need

Child Labor Labor League of Nations Lectures Peace World War I

Address to the Chicago Woman's Club, November 11, 1903

Addams speaks about women reformers' duty to treat the unfortunate with compassion and not contempt.

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Address to the Englewood Women's Club, November 5, 1923 (excerpts)

Addams tells of her trip to Asia and encourages American women to collaborate with women in Asia.

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Address to the Hull-House Woman's Club, December 11, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams notes abuses of Hull-Houses day nurseries by lazy fathers whose wives have to work.

Charity Children Hull-House

Municipal Suffrage, March 6, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Lake View Women's Club, March 6, 1906 (excerpt)

Addams gave an address to the Lake View Women's Club about her views on woman suffrage at the municipal level of government.

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Address to the Sinai Reformed Church, December 8, 1910 (excerpt)

Addams urges women to take an active role in society.

Lectures Women's Rights

Address to the South Side Woman's Club, February 16, 1904 (excerpt)

Newspaper report of Addams' address to the South Side Woman's Club, dealing with how women can cope with the lack of servants by using prepared foods. The article was published under different headlines in multiple newspapers.

Home Economics Labor Lectures

Address to the Woman's City Club of Chicago, January 29, 1917

Addams speaks about the value of women workers in reform to a new evening session of Woman's City Club of Chicago.

Labor Lectures Social Work Sociology

Address to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
New York Branch, March 23, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams discusses women's role in the peace movement at the Hotel Commodore.

Conferences Lectures Peace

Address to the Women's Trade Union League, March 26, 1905 (excerpt)

At the inaugural conference of the Women's Trade Union League, held at the Berkeley Lyceum in New York, Addams argues that women workers should unionize to improve working conditions.

Conferences Labor Lectures

Address to the Young Men's and Young Woman's Christian Associations, June 17, 1901

In a speech in Chicago, Addams warns female students of their future after graduating from college.

Education Gender Roles

America's Place in the New World, May 16, 1919

Addams discusses the role of American women as economic factors in the post-World War I global economy.

Food Conservation Food Shortages Labor Relief Efforts World War I

American Women Slowest of English Speaking Women, May 6, 1909

Addams argues that American women are behind their European peers with regard to individual rights.

Immigrants Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

As I See Women, August 1915

Addams gives an interview on the state of women in America.

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Boston Speech, ca. April 30, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams speaks in Boston about the way to solve the problem of unmarried mothers and delinquent girls and urges the lifting of the Russian blockade.

Foreign Policy Ireland Japan Lectures Morality Soviet Union

Civic Value of Higher Education for Women, June 6, 1912 Also known as Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, June 6, 1912

In this commencement address, Addams discusses the changes in perception of women's intelligence and argues that the time is ripe for women's intelligence to hold sway. The speech was later published in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly.

Education Lectures Politics Social Reform

Civic Value of Higher Education for Women, June 1912 Also known as Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, June 6, 1912

In this commencement address, Addams discusses the changes in perception of women's intelligence and argues that the time is ripe for women's intelligence to hold sway.

Education Labor Lectures Women's Rights

Charles Patrick Neill to Jane Addams, January 29, 1906

Neill offers Addams advice and assistance in securing an investigation of the condition of women workers.

Government Labor Requests

Comment on Happy Families, January 1919 (excerpt)

Addams tells a joke about the secret to happy marriages.

Gender Roles Humor

Comment on Women in Industry, January 1919 (extract)

A short excerpt on Addams's belief that women will remain a factor in industry after the war.

Labor

Comments at National American Woman Suffrage Association Victory Convention, February 13, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams argues that with suffrage won, a new era in legislation will follow.

Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Comments at the National Suffrage Convention, January 26, 1914 (excerpts)

Addams speaks about suffrage and how it will change politics in America.

Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage

Comments on Rebecca West's Views on Men, March 1, 1926

Addams disagrees with Rebecca West's assertion that men are predisposed to menial tasks by nature.

Gender Roles Writings

Conservation of the World's Food Supply, November 3, 1917

In this speech, Addams tells the alumnae of the University of Michigan at the Chicago College club, how they can help with the food shortage crisis by conserving food and understanding the production of food.

Agriculture Civil Service Food Shortages Internationalism Lectures World War I

Current Legislation for Working Women, September 20, 1912

Addams argues for the implementation of a minimum wage for female workers.

Industry Labor Legislation Social Reform Women's Rights

Disturbing Conventions, October 7, 1916

Addams explores women's feelings about illegitimate children and wayward women by telling stories about different women's experiences.

Child Welfare Children Morality Social Purity

Edward William Bok to Jane Addams, March 18, 1915

Bok asks Addams to write an article on "The Idleness of the Suburban Woman."

Requests

Eulogy for Mary Jane Wilmarth, October 8, 1919

Addams praises Wilmarth's impact on women's organizations, reform, settlements, and progressive politics in Chicago.

Chicago Clubs Death Eulogies Women's Rights

Filial Relations, 1915

A selection from Addams' book Democracy and Social Ethics, "Filial Relations" addresses ideas of women being able to live full lives and have thoughts outside of family life.

Family Gender Roles Women's Rights Writings

Food Conservation, October 16, 1917

Addams explores how women's clubs can help conserve food and become more active in helping the starving people of the world.

Agriculture Civil Service Food Conservation Internationalism Lectures World War I

Generous Impulses in Politics, August 30, 1926

Addams speaks on women's roles in peace and internationalism at a public meeting "Next Steps Toward World Peace," held in Geneva on the eve of the opening of the League of Nations General Assembly. It was opened by William Rappard and featured remarks by Addams, Hilda Clark, and Lucie Desjardins.

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