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ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS, and OP-EDS

"A Biographer's Angle on Jane Addams's Feminism," in The Jane Addams Handbook, Patricia Shields, Maurice Hamington, and Joseph Soeters, eds. (NY: Oxford University Press, 2023). 

"The South Carolina Aristocrat Who Became A Feminist Abolitionist," July 23, 2018, Zocalo Public Square.

The nomination of the first woman to be the candidate for a major political party was historic. It was also imagined, possibly for the first time, by Angelina Grimke in 1837.  In a July 2016 post for the Organization of American Historians blog, I noted the history of the idea, the project of women's political advancement, and whether history makes the case that Clinton will win.


The Story of Jane Addams: This is my letter to the editor of the New York Times, after it published David Brooks's column about Addams in April 2017. 

"History's Handmaidens," a blog post about historical fiction and biography, for the Women's Review of Books Blog, March 2016.

"The Grimke Family Home." Caralogue, magazine of the South Carolina Historical Society, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Spring 2015): 21-25.

"The Radical and the Moderate," Women's Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 1 (January/February, 2015): 18-20. 

"John Dewey and Jane Addams Debate War,” in Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice, Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark, eds. (Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 2014). 

“Jane Addams and Theodore Roosevelt: A Political Friendship,” in Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 34, (Summer 2013) 3: 69-75.

"Chicago's Three Nobel Peace Laureates," Huffington Post, April 12, 2012.

“Rediscovering Lucy Stone,” in Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (Columbia, S.C.: Layman Poupard, 2012)

“As Chicago’s Hull House Closes Its Doors, Time to Revive the Settlement Model?” The Nation.com, January 25, 2012. 

“Political power that comes from the bottom up,” Chicago Tribune, Opinion Page, October 21, 2011.

My essay on Jane Addams's 150th birthday (September 6, 2010)  was featured on Fox News.com

In 2010, when the Tea Party was just emerging as a force in U.S. politics, I was struck by the parallels between its agenda and that of the ant-federalists, who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. It is available online at History News Service, which also distributed it to its syndicated membership. Many newspapers around the country published this op-ed and I received a fascinating variety of emails in response. 

"Love on Halsted Street," in Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams, Maurice Hamington, ed. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010).

"Jane Addams's Early Theory and Practice of Cooperation" in Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy. Marilyn Fischer, et. al., eds. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009).

"Sibling Rivalry: History and Memoir, " Women’s Review of Books, July/August 2007.

“Garbage and Democracy: The Chicago Organizing Campaign of the 1890s,” Journal of Community Practice (Fall 2006).

“Changing my Mind: An Encounter with Jane Addams,” Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work vol. 21, No. 1 (February 2006), 97-104.

"An Authoritative Voice: Jane Addams and the Oratorical Tradition," Gender & History 10 (August 1998) 2: 217-251.

"Biography's Window on Social Change: Benevolence and Justice in Jane Addams' 'A Modern Lear,' " The Journal of Women's History 9 (Spring  l997) 1: 111-138.

"Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement," in American Reform and Reformers. Eds. Paul Cimbala and Randall Miller (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996). Reprinted in Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society (Westport, CT: Praeger Press, l997).

"Jane Addams and Hull House: Historical Lessons in Leadership," Nonprofit Management and Leadership 2 (Winter l992) 2: 125-141.


BOOK REVIEWS

A 2011 review of Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise, posted on the website of the Society of U.S. Intellectual History. 

Review in the September 4, 2010 Wall Street Journal, "Five Best First-Person Accounts of the Progressive Era." 

Book review on several books about Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for Women’s Review of Books 27, no. 6 (November-December 2010),  29-31.

Book review of Lillian Wald: A Biography by Marjorie Feld, in Women’s Review of Books 26, no. 2 (March/April 2009): 28-29.

Book review of Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery, Journal of American History 95, no. 1 (June 2008): 248. 

“Red Scare” [book review of Death in the Haymarket by James Green], New York Times Book Review, May 7, 2006.


ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Jane Addams,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). 
 
“Jane Addams, “Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
 
"Jane Addams,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). 

“Jane Addams” and “Gloria Steinem” entries, International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, ed. Immanuel Ness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

“Jane Addams” entry in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, Richard A. Shweder et al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

“Women- Political Participation,” and “Women’s Rights,” Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (Scribner’s, 2006).

“Jane Addams,” Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography (Greenwood, 2003).

"Harriet Alleyne Rice," in Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990 Rima Lumin Schultz et. al., eds. (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2001).


MISCELLANEOUS

View  the September 3, 2010 slideshow, "The Woman Who Changed The World," for which Louise W. Knight wrote the captions, which is posted on the AARP website. 

Annotated chronology of Jane Addams's life
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