The developing history of consumption is not so much a separate field, as a prism through which many aspects of social and political life may be viewed. The essays in this ...

Women reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of ...

Finally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the ...

During the twentieth century sound underwent a dramatic transformation as new technologies and social practices challenged conventional aural experience. As a result, sound ...

The Orphans and Vulnerable Children Wellbeing Tool was developed to serve as a fast, easy method of securing data about the overall wellbeing of children in OVC programs.

Never Done is the first history of American housework. Beginning with a description of household chores of the nineteenth century--cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves ...