Jane Addams was world famous in her day and all-but-forgotten now, in spite of her Nobel Peace Prize. I only really heard of her a year or two ago. I think part of her neglect comes from how difficult it is to explain her accomplishment -- she was a great writer and thinker, but she writes and think

"We have in America a fast-growing number of cultivated young people who have no recognized outlet for their active faculties. They bear constantly of the great social maladjustment, but no way is provided for them to change it, and their uselessness bangs about them heavily. … We are fast feeling t

This book remains relevant for many different reasons. Worth reading and pondering its applications!

Meh. Read it for sociology. I have mixed feelings. She makes a few good points, though also thinks vaudeville and the theater are basically societal evils. Eh. A product of her time.

lmao whenever you think 'video games cause violence' is an original and compelling news story, I want you to go and read this book. Read this book and remember that at one point 'movies cause violence' was a thing. Remember that before that, 'theatre causes violence' was a thing. etc, etc. Despite t

This essay is typical Addams prose - used muckraking style of human interest stories with scientific evidence to progress America, especially Chicago. This is a narrow topic, best for graduate material.