“Some of Us Who Deal with the Social Fabric”: Jane Addams Blends Peace and Social Justice, 1907–1919

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-96

  Sklar, Kathryn Kish ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84858286037     PISSN: 15377814     EISSN: 19433557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S153778140000236X     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Jane Addams, Newer Ideals of Peace (New York, 1907) is available online at “The Mead Project” http://spartan.ac.brochu.ca/~lward/Addams/_1907_toc.htm
2. For the older male-dominated peace movement in the United States, see Roland C. Marchand, The American Peace Movement and Social Reform, 1898–1918 (Princeton, 1972).
3. Addams' earlier writings include “Democracy or Militarism,” in Central Anti-Imperialist League of Chicago, Liberty Tract I (1899): 35–39
4. “What Peace Means,” Unity XLIB (May 4, 1899): 178
5. “What is the Greatest Menace to Twentieth Century Progress?” Sunset Club [of Chicago] Yearbook (1899/1901): 338–341
6. “Newer Ideals of Peace,” Chautauqua Assembly HeraldXXVII.(My 9,1902):2 and XXVII(July 10,1902):6
7. “CountTolstoy,”Chautauqua Assembly Herald. XXVII (July 11,1902): 5
8. “Tolstoy's Theory of Life,” Chautauqua Assembly Herald. XXVH (July 14,1902): 2–3
9. “The Responsibilities and Duties of Women toward the Peace Movement,” in Universal Peace Congress, Official Report XIII (1904): 120–122
10. “The Interests of Labor in International Peace,” Official Report.: 145–147.
11. Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, Augusta, Maine, January 23, 1907, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Jane Addams Papers, Series 1.
12. William James to Jane Addams, Cambridge, Mass., February 12,1907, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Addams Papers, Series 1.
13. “The most extensive treatment of the book is in Allen F. Davis, American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams (New York, 1973), 135–146.
14. George Herbert Mead, “Review of The Newer Ideas of Peace by Jane Addams,” American Journal of Sociology 13 (1907): 121–128.
15. For this and other writings by Mead, see “The Mead Project” at http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca
16. Quoted in Davis, American Heroine, 148 from an uncited review.
17. “‘Newer Ideals of Peace’: Jane Addams of Hull House,” The Daily Inter Ocean, February 9, 1907, 10.
18. See Harriet Hyman Alonso, Peace as a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights (Syracuse, 1993).
19. Mary Chamberlain, “The Women at the Hague,” Survey (June 5, 1915): 219.
20. Reprinted in Kathryn Kish Sklar, Anja Schuler and Susan Strasser, eds., Social Justice Feminism in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885–1933 (Ithaca, 1998), 203–212.
21. “Resolutions adopted by The International Congress of Women, The Hague, Holland, April 28, 29, 30, 1915,” in Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, and Alice Hamilton, eds., Women at The Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results (New York, 1915), 150ff.
22. Reprinted in Sklar, et al, Social Justice Feminism, 213–217.
23. The resolutions are also online at “Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1775–2000: How Did Women Peace Envoys Promote Peace by Touring European Capitals in 1915?” http://womhist.binghamton.edu/hague/doc 1.htm
24. Report of the International Congress of Women, Zurich, May 12 to 17, 1919 (Geneva: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, [1919]), 243–246.
25. Descriptions of the Zurich conference can be found in Sklar, et al, Social Justice Feminism, 229–242.
26. For an enumeration of delegates at The Hague, see Sklar, et al, Social Justice Feminism, 206–210.
27. For Addams' prestige in Germany, see Social Justice Feminism., 168–179.
28. Alonso, Peace as a Women's Issue, 50–53.
29. Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, New York City, December 16, 1914, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, WILPF Papers, Woman's Peace Party, Correspondence.
30. Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, Chicago, December 21, 1914, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, WILPF Papers, Woman's Peace Party, Correspondence.
31. Catt to Addams, December 16, 1914.
32. Addams to Catt, December 21, 1914. Addams also mentioned new groups in the following cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Nashville, and St. Paul.
33. See ‘“Roll of Charter Members’ at the Organizational Conference,” January 10–11, 1915, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, WILPF Papers, Woman's Peace Party, microfilm reel 12, frame 17.
34. Jane Addams to Desha Breckinridge, Chicago, November 30, 1914, Library of Congress, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Papers.
35. Lillian Wald to Emily Greene Balch, New York City, September 22, 1914, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Emily Greene Balch Papers.
36. Marchand, The American Peace Movement, 231–258
37. Lillian Wald to Jane Addams, New York City, December 17, 1914, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, WILPF Papers, Woman's Peace Party, Correspondence.
38. Lillian Wald to Jane Addams, New York City, December 24, 1914, New York Public Library, Lillian D. Wald Papers, Outgoing Letters.
39. Jane Addams to Lillian Wald, Chicago, December 27, 1914, New York Public Library, Lillian D. Wald Papers, Incoming Letters. Lillian Wald had joined the women's peace movement by 1919 and attended the Zurich conference.
40. Jane Addams to Lucia Ames Mead, two letters, both Chicago, December 28,1914, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, WILPF Papers, Woman's Peace Party, Correspondence.
41. Carrie Chapman Catt to Jane Addams, New York City, December 29, 1914, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, WTLPF Papers, Woman's Peace Party, Correspondence.
42. ‘“Roll of Charter Members.’ The Woman's Peace Party,” January 10, 1915, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, WILPF Papers, Woman's Peace Party. Among other resolutions, the meeting called for equal citizenship for women, legislative control of foreign policy, and the nationalization of the manufacturing of arms.
43. Roll of Charter Members.
44. For a photo of the American delegation to The Hague, see Sklar, et al, Social Justice Feminists, 182.
45. “Journal of Miss Emily Greene Balch, Trip to The Hague,” 1915, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Emily Greene Balch Papers, Box 19, folder 3.
46. Journal of Miss Emily Greene Balch, Trip to The Hague.
47. Alice Hamilton to Mary Smith, [on board the S. S. Noordam], April 22, [1915], printed in Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (Cambridge, MA, 1984), 185–188.
48. Journal of Miss Emily Greene Balch, Trip to The Hague.