home economics

Describes what the American home was like in the 1800s, discussing how developments in taste, fashion, technology, and social change influenced home and family life and exploring the leisure activities, values, consumer goods, traditions, and events that defined nineteenth-century Americans.

Provides recipes and instructions for making a wide variety of homemade items, including treats from the kitchen, home decorations, cosmetics and natural home remedies, yard and garden ornaments, pet and wildlife projects, and gifts.

A collection of household tips designed to help people organize their homes, clean and repair household items, care for pets, get rid of household pests, and save money.

Depicts the responsibilities and daily life of colonial housewives, provides original colonial recipes for food, beverages, medicines, and cosmetics, and includes information on etiquette.

Provides more than 1,900 suggestions for using brand-name products for making home repairs, covering books, clothing, painting, toilets, appliances, and other household items and areas.