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An abundance of print resources are available to help you locate the
social history background for your family history. This Social History
Library offers a wide variety of helpful books to get your started. Many
of these books are available at your local library, favorite bookseller,
or online at www.amazon.com.
Nearby
History
by David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty
A comprehensive handbook on investigating the history of your community,
family, local institutions, and cultural artifacts, Nearby History guides
you in researching the world close at hand.
On
Doing Local History
by Carol Kammen
Kammen introduces her readers to the excitement and varieties of local
history. She writes from experience about being a historian, doing history,
and using history in a way that is clear, engaging, and interesting.
How
to Research Local History: Find Out All About Your House, Village, or
Town
by Pamela Brooks
A good, clearly written survey of the scope of local history and countless
resources that feed into it.
American
Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services
by Jessica H. Foy
This book, while taking account of architecture and decoration, moves
beyond the study of buildings to the study of behaviors, particularly
the behaviors of those who peopled the middle-class, single family, detached
American home between 1880 and 1930.
Everyday
Life in Early America
by David Freeman Hawke
The author provides details about the lives of early settlers in seventeenth
century America.
Colonial
Living
by Edwin Tunis
A lively re-creation of seventeenth and eighteenth century America that
examines the everyday lives of the men and women who transplanted European
culture to the New World.
The
Expansion of Everyday Life 1860-1876
by Daniel E. Sutherland
A richly detailed, absorbing portrait of the daily life of Americans before,
during, and after the Civil War.
Victorian
America: Transforming the Everyday Life, 1876-1915
by Thomas J. Schlereth
A detailed, lively survey of the commonplace objects, events, experiences,
products, and tastes that comprised America's Victorian culture, expressed
its values, and shaped modern life.
Uncertainty
of Everyday Life: 1915-1945
by Harvey Green
An account of our society in this century that traces the minute changes
that, as they accumulated, shook the underpinnings of the "American
Way" of life.
Daily
Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the
Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
by David E. Kyvig
This book examines how Americans spent their days, how were they affected
by the popular culture, and what were their work and domestic lives were
like.
Slave
Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South
by Adam Rothman
An analytical narrative of how the three states associated with the Deep
South - Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi - developed into plantation
societies.
Only
Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
by Frederick Lewis Allen
Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution
of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the
events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the
Roaring Twenties.
Far
from Home: Families of the Westward Journey
by Lillian Schlissel
In a study of the westward movement, the authors examine the bitter history
of three migrant families - everyday people who lived on the western frontier.
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