As Jane Addams, the founder of Chicago’s Hull House, lay in her bed recovering from surgery in the spring of 1916, she received a visit from Theodore Roosevelt. Addams had campaigned for Roosevelt and ...

Her subject was a pragmatic visionary and rebel, says Louise W. Knight in this excerpt from the biography “Jane Addams: Spirit in Action.” The book comes out on the 150th anniversary of the birth of ...

The founder of Hull House, social reformer, and activist in the women's suffrage movement was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than ...

The portrait hanging above a marble fireplace at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum shows a calm and self-possessed young woman in a billowing lemon chiffon dress, a soft summer sky behind her, a ...

Editor's note: This commentary is by Margaret Harrington, the co-president of the Janes Addams Peace Association and host/producer of the Nuclear Free Future Conversation series on Burlington's ...