Lucy Knight presents her research on the debates John Dewey (1859-1952) and Jane Addams (1860-1935) had over the issues of war and peace (the era of the First World War). Addams was a well-known social reformer, advocate of women’s rights, and peace activist. Her collaborations with Dewey in progressive education and the Laboratory School in Chicago made them lifelong friends. Their debates were respectful public exchanges in articles and speeches.

Louise (Lucy) W. Knight is an author, lecturer, and historian. She has written two biographies of Jane Addams: Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2005), about Addams’s formative years; the second book, the first full life biography of Addams in 37 years is Jane Addams: In Spirit and Action (W. W. Norton, 2010). Shifting her focus to the antebellum period, she is currently working on a book about the radical abolitionist-feminists, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, titled American Sisters: Sarah and Angelina Grimké and the First Fight for Human Rights, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2022. Knight’s writing have been published in the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation website, CNN.com, and the Chicago Tribune.

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