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Ellen Herman

Department of History, University of Oregon


 

HIST 460/560, Spring 2004, Week 2
Jane Addams: Outline and Key Terms

1. How to reconcile democracy with modernity?

2. Jane Addams, biography (1860-1935)

3. Considering Addams as an Intellectual

4. Addams’ Theory of Social Democracy

cultural pluralism
maternalism and “social housekeeping”
The Progressive era and Progressive reform
Hull House, established 1889 with Ellen Gates Starr
family claim vs. social claim
pragmatism
Nobel Peace Prize, 1931