General sources
The Jane Addams Papers Project : This includes a freely accessible digital edition of Addams’ papers from 1901-1935. The first phase of the digital edition includes Addams; correspondence (both incoming and outgoing) and writings, excluding books.
Addams’ writing, selected
“The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements,” January 1, 1892.
Newer Ideals of Peace (Macmillan), 1907.
The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (Macmillan), 1909.
Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes (Macmillan), 1910.
Peace and Bread in Time of War (Macmillan) 1922).
Biographies and Historical Background
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life (Basic Books), 2002.
Estelle Freedman, Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition, 1887-1974 (University of Chicago Press), 1996.
Louise W. Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (University of Chicago Press), 2005.
Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (Oxford University Press), 1991.
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work (Yale University Press), 1995.
Videos
“The House That Jane Built,” New York, Cinema Guild, 1990. This video is available for streaming on the UO library website.
“The Idea Makers: The Women of Hull House,” New River Media, 2002.
“The Legacy of Hull House,” conversation and presentation by Lisa Yun Lee (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Shannon Jackson (University of California, Berkeley) about Jane Addams, the settlement movement, and its significance for democracy, social reform, and the arts.