Social Science reprints
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At the end of the 19th century, after Americans had endured thirty years of tremendous change due to rapid industrial growth, social upheavals, and the excesses of the Gilded Age, they began to look back with increasing fondness to their own past. The Colonial Revival in architecture was one fruit of this nostalgia; another was the insightful chronicles of social history in earlier days written by this author. Following the success of her book Home Life in Colonial Days, she wrote a detailed and fascinating account of American children and their lives from the very earliest settlers to the first decades of the new republic. Covering everything from dress to toys, schools to play, discipline and religion, she described in highly readable prose a child's life in the days before the railroad and telegraph.
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Books in this Series
Women in the fine arts, from the seventh century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D
Child life in colonial days / written by Alice Morse Earle
At the end of the 19th century, after Americans had endured thirty years of tremendous change due to rapid industrial growth, social upheavals, and the excesses of the Gilded Age, they began to look back with increasing fondness to their own past. The Colonial Revival in architecture was one fruit of this nostalgia; another was the insightful chronicles of social history in earlier days written by this author. Following the success of her book Home Life in Colonial Days, she wrote a detailed and fascinating account of American children and their lives from the very earliest settlers to the first decades of the new republic. Covering everything from dress to toys, schools to play, discipline and religion, she described in highly readable prose a child's life in the days before the railroad and telegraph.
Woman on the American frontier
Numerous brief stories of heroism and hardship on many frontiers throughout American history. Some of the chapter headings are: -Woman as a Pioneer -Woman’s Work in Floods and Storms -Woman’s Adventures and Heroism -On the Indian Trail -Captive Scouts -Patriot Women of the Revolution -Home Life in the Backwoods -Encounters with Wild Beasts -Courage and Daring -Woman as a Missionary to the Indians -Woman in the Army -The Comforter and Guardian -Woman as an Educator on the Frontier.