Historic communities

Discusses kitchen utensils and activities including cooking over a fire, baking bread, making butter, and preserving food.

This book examines the clothing styles, accessories, and hygene habits of men, women, and children in eighteenth century North America.

Colorful photographs and text describe how colonial Americans made the things they needed such as chairs, baskets, tools, and clothing. Introduces the workshops of colonial wheelwrights, coopers, shoemakers, milliners, leatherworkers, and more.

Explains the source of various sayings and expressions from the American frontier, as well as how they are used today. Includes such sayings as "cut and dried" and "apple of one's eye."

Looks at the many different games children played in the nineteenth century, and describes the rules and play in detail.

Describes various aspects of the lives of women and girls during the nineteenth century, including their lack of educational opportunities, restrictive clothing, pastimes, courtship and marriage, and limited employment prospects.

Describes the plantations that existed in the southern United States into the nineteenth century, examining what life was like for the owners of these large farming communities, their children, and the slaves.

Describes mission life during the Spanish colonial period in the southwestern United States, the plight of Native Americans and Roman Catholic missionaries, and Spanish missions today.