A progressive social reformer and activist, Jane Addams was on the frontline of the settlement house movement and was the first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Discover more at womenshistory.org.

Jane Addams (1860-1935): American pioneer social worker, sociologist and founder of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom.

Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois in 1860. Her mother died when she was two and she was raised by her father and, later, a stepmo...

“#DYK, the 1st US woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize was Jane Addams in 1931?”

The feminist movement has been around for nearly two centuries in the United States now, and if its founding mothers saw what it looked like today, they might have trouble recognizing it at first, but they'd also notice similarities. That's why many…

Eva Lawrence Watson-Schütze, c. 1910