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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 Newspaper Advertisement, April 17, 1912

Newspaper advertisements for A New Conscience and An Ancient Evil.

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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.

Books Immigrants Legislation Prostitution White Slavery Women's Rights

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Chapter II: Economic Pressure and Its Inevitable Results, December 1911

Addams explores the economic plight of young women that often drives them to prostitution and white slavery. This is the second in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.

Books Consumerism Prostitution White Slavery

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.

Child Welfare Children Education Government Morality Prostitution Religion Sex Hygiene

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.

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Chapter V: Social Control, March 1912

Addams discusses how social movements can help alleviate vice, providing examples such as crusades against diseases and organized opposition to the white slave trade. This is the final article in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil later in the year.

Morality Peace Prostitution Public Health Socialism Woman Suffrage

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil: Chapter V: Social Control, March 1912

Page proofs of "Chapter V: Social Control," the final article in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil later in the year.

Morality Peace Prostitution Public Health Socialism Woman Suffrage

A New Democracy, August 21, 1902

Charles Love criticizes the tendency of employers and employees to have separate lives outside the shop door, and he seeks a new social order in which they would interact at work and outside of work.

Democracy Labor Social Reform

A New Peace Conference Resolutions, December 9, 1922

The Conference proposes a series of resolutions calling for revision of the peace terms of World War I.

International Affairs League of Nations Peace Poverty World War I

A New Peace, First Provision Draft of Resolutions for the Hague Women’s Conference, September 29, 1922

Swanwick drafts the resolutions to be presented to the Hague Women's Conference in December, seeking to revise treaties to insure international peace and cooperation.

Conferences Disarmament Economics League of Nations Meetings Military Peace World War I