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Everyday Life in History
Everyday Life in the Modern Era
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Order of Contents
Native Americans
Whole History
Colonies
Revolutionary War
To Civil War
1800’s
Civil War
To 1900
. Western Frontier
1900’s
2000’s
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Native Americans
Short & Friendly
McCall, Barbara – Native American Culture: Daily Life (Rourke Publications, 1994) 68 pp. ToC
Morris, Neil – Everyday Life of the Native Americans in Uncovering History (2006) 44 pp.
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Dictionary
Dictionary of Daily Life of Indians of the Americas, vol. 1, 2 (American Indian Publishers, 1981)
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Books
White, Jon M. – Everyday Life of the North American Indian (Batsford, 1979) 263 pp. ToC
Moulton, Candy – Everyday Life among the American Indians: 1800-1900 (Writer’s Digest Books, 2001) 280 pp. ToC
Confer, Clarissa – Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America (Greenwood Press, 2008) 240 pp.
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Southeast
Winn, William – The Old Beloved Path: Daily Life among the Indians of the Chattahoochee River Valley (Historic Chattahoochee Commission, 1992) 300 pp. ToC
Usner, Jr., Daniel – American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social & Economic Histories (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1998) 220 pp. ToC
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Western Great Lakes
Kalman, Bobbie – Life in an Anishinabe Camp (Crabtree, 2003) 36 pp. ToC
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Southwest
Article
Guinn, J.M. – “In the Old Pueblo Days (Homes & Home Life in Old Los Angelos)” in Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California & Pioneer Register, Los Angelos, vol. 4 (1899), pp. 223-27
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Book
Hewett, Edgar – Ancient Life in the American Southwest, with an Introduction on the General History of the American Race (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1930) 450 pp. ToC
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Western
Book
ed. Hudson, Travis – Breath of the Sun: Life in Early California [1800 to 1930] as told by a Chumash Indian, Fernando Librado to John P. Harrington (Malki Museum Press, 1979) 195 pp. ToC
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Women
Terrell, John & Donna – Indian Women of the Western Morning: their Life in Early America (Anchor Books, 1976) 190 pp. ToC
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Bible
Moffett, Thomas – The Bible in the Life of the Indians of the United States (American Bible Society, 1916) 30 pp. ToC
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Environment
Kowtko, Stacy – Nature & the Environment in Pre-Columbian American Life in Daily Life through History (Greenwood, 2006) 225 pp.
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Families
Volo, James & Dorothy Volo – Family Life in Native America (Greenwood Press, 2007) 420 pp. ToC
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1492 to 1900
Nash, Alice & Christopher Strobel – Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth-Century America in Daily Life through History (Greenwood)
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1500’s
Short & Friendly
Adil, Janeen – The Northeast Indians: Daily Life in the 1500’s (Capstone Press, 2006) 27 pp. ToC
Slusher-Haas, Kathy Jo – The Southeast Indians: Daily Life in the 1500’s (Capstone Press, 2006) 25 pp. ToC
Englar, Mary – The Southwest Indians: Daily Life in the 1500’s (Capstone Press, 2006) 25 pp. ToC
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1600’s to 1700’s
Slavery
Book
Lauber, Almon W. – Indian Slavery [by the English] in Colonial Times within the Present Limits of the United States (Corner House Publishers, 1970) 340 pp.
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1700’s
Short & Friendly
Monroe, Judy – The Northwest Indians: Daily Life in the 1700’s (Capstone Press, 2006) 28 pp. ToC
Englar, Mary – Great Plains Indians: Daily Life in the 1700’s (Capstone Press, 2006) 27 pp. ToC
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1800’s
Book
Terry, Michael Bad Hand – Daily Life in a Plains Indian Village, 1868 (Scholastic Inc., 2001) 46 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Roberts, John – Zuni Daily Life [in New Mexico], circa 1950 (Human Relations Area Files Press, 1965) 170 pp. ToC
Gidley, M. – With One Sky above Us: Life on an Indian Reservation [in the Northwest] at the Turn of the Century (Putnam’s Sons, 1979) 155 pp. no ToC
Fixico, Donald – Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood Press, 2006) 285 pp.
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Whole History
Social History
Books
Faulkner, Harold U. – American Political & Social History (Crofts, 1947) 885 pp. ToC
eds. Lankford & Reimers – Essays on American Social History (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970) 410 pp. ToC
Nugent, Walter – Structures of American Social History (Indiana Univ. Press, 1985) 215 pp. ToC
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Bibliographies
Grob, Gerald – American Social History before 1860 in Goldentree Bibliographies in American History (Appleton-Century Crofts, 1970) 150 pp. ToC
Bremner, Robert H. – American Social History since 1860 in Goldentree Bibliographies in American History (Appleton-Century Crofts, 1971) 140 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
Book
Cullen, Jim – The Art of Democracy: a Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States (Monthly Review Press, 1996) 315 pp. ToC
ed. Cullen, Jim – Popular Culture in American History 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) 280 pp. ToC
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White House
Troy, Tevi – What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched & Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House (2013) 340 pp.
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Bibliography
Article
Randall, Scott – “Finding Materials on American Popular Culture in the MSU Libraries: Popular Music, Television, Comics, Popular Fiction, Movies. How to Find Series no. 9” (Michigan State University, 1980) 24 pp. ToC
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Anthology
ed. Nash, Gary & Cynthia Shelton – The Private Side of American History: Readings in Everyday Life, vol. 1 (to 1877), 2 (since 1865) 4th ed. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987) ToC 1, 2
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Encyclopedias
Everyday Life: American Social History: Selections from the Three-Volume Encyclopedia of American Social History (MacMillan Library Reference, 1993) 1,085 pp. Subjects are in alphabetical order.
ed. Miller, Randall – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America, vol. 1 (1763+), 2 (1861+), 3 (1900+), 4 (1940-2009) (Greenwood Press, 2009)
eds. Cayton, Gorn & Williams – Encyclopedia of American Social History, vol. 1 (Periods, Methods & Contexts, Identities, Processes), 2 (Ethnic, Racial, Regional, Space, Place, Everyday, Work), 3 (Popular, Recreation, Families, Social Problems, Science, Medicine, Technology, Education) (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993) ToC
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Northeast
New York
Friendly
Mannello, George – Life in New York (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962) 485 pp. ToC
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Midwest & South
Book
Pabis, George – Daily Life along the Mississippi [River] (Greenwood Press, 2007) 250 pp. ToC
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Bibliography
McKinistry, E. Richard – Personal Accounts of Events, Travels & Everyday Life in America: an Annotated Bibliography (Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997) 265 pp. ToC
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Families
Mintz, Steven & Kellogg, Susan – Domestic Revolutions: a Social History of American Family Life (Free Press, 1988) 345 pp.
Handlin & Handlin – Facing Life: Youth & the Family in American History (Little, Brown & Co., 1971) 330 pp. ToC
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Soldiers
Lewis, Jon – The Mammoth Book of War Diaries & Letters: Life on the Battlefield in the Words of the Ordinary Soldier, 1775-1991 (Carroll & Graf, 1999) 500 pp. ToC
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Education
ed. Vassar, Rena – Social History of American Education, vol. 1 (to 1860), 2 (After 1860) (Rand McNally, 1965) ToC 1, 2
Herschbach, Dennis – American Education: a Social History (Kendall Hunt, 2014) 350 pp. ToC
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1500 to 1850
Cooking
Eden, Trudy – Cooking in America, 1590-1840: Daily Life through History (Greenwood, 2006) 180 pp. ToC
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At Sea
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the Age of Sail (Greenwood Press)
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1620 to 2000
Families
eds. Albin, Mel & Dominick Cavallo – Family Life in America, 1620-2000 (Revisionary Press, 1981) 340 pp. ToC
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New York City
Jews
City of Promise; Aspects of Jewish Life in New York, 1654-1970 (New-York Historical Society, 1971) 45 pp. no ToC
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1620 to 1865
During War
eds. Heidler, David & Jeanne Heidler – Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America (Greenwood Press, 2007) 275 pp. ToC
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1789 to 1928
ed. Nevins, Allan – American Social History as Recorded by British Travellers (Holt, 1923) 605 pp. ToC
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Colonial America
1600’s
Books
Hall, David – A Reforming People: Puritanism & the Transformation of Public Life in New England [1630-1660] (Knopf, 2011) 280 pp.
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New England
Dow, George – Domestic Life in New England in the Seventeenth Century: a Discourse delivered in the lecture hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City… (Perkins Press, 1925) 80 pp. no ToC
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1620 to 1640
Short & Friendly
Erickson, Paul – Daily Life in the Pilgrim Colony, 1636 (Clarion Books, 2001) 47 pp. ToC
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Books
Loeb, Robert H. – Meet the Real Pilgrims: Everyday Life on Plimoth Plantation in 1627 (Doubleday, 1979) 115 pp.
Davis, Andrew – John Harvard’s Life in America, or, Social & Political Life in New England in 1637-1638 in The Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, vol. 12 (Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, 1908) 44 pp. no ToC
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Friendly
Knight, James – The Village: Life in Colonial Times (Troll Associates, 1982) 34 pp.
ed. Smith, C. Carter
Daily Life: a Sourcebook on Colonial America (Millbook Press, 1991) 94 pp. ToC
Daily Life in Colonial America in Journeys into the Past (Reader Digest Association, 1993) 135 pp. ToC
Nardo, Don – Daily Life in Colonial America (Lucent Books, 2010) 98 pp. ToC
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Books
Buck, William J. – William Penn in America: or an Account of his Life from the time he recieved the grant of Pennsylvania in 1681, until his final return to England [1781]. Giving, as far as possible, his every-day occurences while in the province (Philadelphia: Friends’ Book Association, 1888) 425 pp. ToC
Stone, Gertrude & M. Grace Fickett – Everyday Life in the Colonies (Heath & Co., 1905) 155 pp. ToC
Fisher, Sydney G. – Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times, vol. 1, 2 (Lippincott Co., 1908) ToC 1, 2
Langdon, William C. – Everyday Things in American Life, 1607-1776 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1937) 408 pp.
Kelty, Mary – Life in Early America (Ginn & Co., 1941) 425 pp.
Wright, Louis B. – Everyday Life in Colonial America (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966) 250 pp. ToC
ed. Bracken, Jeanne M. – Life in the American Colonies: Daily Lifestyles of the Early Settlers (Discovery Enterprises, 1995) 63 pp. ToC
Taylor, Dale – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Colonial America from 1607-1783 (Writer’s Digest Books, 1997) 300 pp. ToC
Hawke, David F. – Everyday Life in Early America (Harper & Row, 1999) 220 pp. ToC
Volo, James & Dorothy – Daily Life on the Old Colonial Frontier (Greenwood Press, 2002) 360 pp. ToC
Demos, John – Circles & Lines: the Shape of Life in Early America (Harvard Univ. Press, 2004) 105 pp.
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New England & Northeast
Books
Crawford, Mary C. – Social Life in Old New England (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914) 545 pp. ToC
Dow, George F. – Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Blom, 1935) 390 pp. ToC
Johnson, Claudia D. – Daily Life in Colonial New England (Greenwood Press, 2002) 240 pp. ToC
Demos, John – A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (Oxford Univ. Press, 1971) 230 pp. ToC
Smith, Daniel Blake – Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society (Cornell Univ. Press, 1980) 315 pp. ToC
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A Novel
Wellington, Andrew – Deborah Moses, or Pen Pictures of Colonial Life in New England (Good Will Publishing, 1915) 585 pp. ToC
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Massachusetts
City of Boston
Crawford, Mary C. – Old Boston in Colonial Days: or, St. Botolph’s Town from the time of Blackstone, the first settler, to the outbreak of the American Revolution (Page Co., 1922) 180 pp. ToC Map
Howard, Brett – Boston: a Social History (Hawthorn Books, 1976) 345 pp. ToC
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New Hampshire
Fassett, James – Colonial Life in New Hampshire (Ginn, 1899) 165 pp. ToC
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New York City
Short & Friendly
Fischer, Laura – Life in New Amsterdam in Picture the Past (Heinemann Library, 2003) 34 pp. ToC
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Books
Narrett, David – Inheritance & Family Life in Colonial New York City (Cornell Univ. Press, 1992) 260 pp.
Bender, Thomas – New York Intellect: a History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the beginnings of our own time (Knopf, 1987) 440 pp.
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Churches
Van Pelt, Daniel – Pictures of Early Church Life in New York City (NY: Board of Publication, 1900) 85 pp. ToC
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New Jersey
Books
Weiss, Harry – Life in Early New Jersey in The New Jersey Historical Series, vol. 26 (Nostrand Co., 1964) 180 pp. ToC
Marrin, Richard – A Glance Back in Time: Life in Colonial New Jersey (1704-1770) as depicted in News Accounts of the Day (Heritage Books, 1994) 360 pp. ToC
Mellick, Andrew – The Story of an Old Farm; or, Life in New Jersey in the Eighteenth Century (1889) 770 pp. ToC
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Mid-Atlantic
Books
Lichtenstein, Gaston – Early Social Life in Edgecombe [1732-1904]: Also, Early History of Edgecombe & a Tarborean’s Experience Abroad: Three Articles (Wm. Ellis Jones, 1904) 15 pp. no ToC
Campbell, Helen – Diary of a Williamsburg Hostess, which recites the every day events of life in the restored capital of colonial Virginia (Putnam’s Sons, 1946) 170 pp. no ToC
Bruce, Philip A. – Social Life in Old Virginia: from the “Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century” (Capricorn Books, 1965) 470 pp. ToC
Schaun, George & Virginia – Everyday Life in Colonial Maryland (1959; Maryland Historical Press, 1980) 160 pp. ToC
Main, Gloria – Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1982) 335 pp.
eds. Letzer, Mark & Jean Russo – The Diary of William Faris: the Daily Life of an Annapolis Silversmith (Maryland Historical Society, 2003) 525 pp. ToC
Olmert, Michael – Kitchens, Smokehouses & Privies: Outbuildings & the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic (Cornell Univ. Press, 2009) 300 pp. ToC
Morgan, Edmund S. – Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century (Dominion Books, 1973) 130 pp. ToC
Smith, Daniel – Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society (Cornell Univ. Press, 1980) 315 pp.
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City of Charleston
Bowes, Frederick – The Culture of Early Charleston (Chapel Hill, 1942) 165 pp.
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New Mexico
Simmons, Marc – Coronado’s Land: Essyas on Daily Life in Colonial New Mexico (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1991) 195 pp. ToC
Jordan, Louann & St. George Cooke – El Rancho de Las Golondrinas: Spanish Colonial Life in New Mexico [1710-1846] rev. ed. (1977; Colonial New Mexico Historical Foundation, 1983) 45 pp. no ToC
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Puritans
Leverenz, David – The Language of Puritan Feeling: an Exploration in Literature, Psychology & Social History (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1980) 355 pp. ToC
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Scotch-Irish
Leyburn, James Graham – The Scotch-Irish: a Social History (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1962) 390 pp.
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Families
Volo, James & Dorothy – Family Life in 17th- & 18th-Century America in Family Life through History (Greenwood, 2006) 340 pp. ToC
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Growing Up
Article
Brekus, Catherine – “Children of Wrath, Children of Grace: Jonathan Edwards & the Puritan Culture of Child Rearing” in The Child in Christian Thought, ed. Marcia J. Bunge (Eerdmans, 2001)
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Short & Friendly
Samuel Eaton’s Day: a Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy (Scholastic Inc., 1993) 37 pp.
Foresman, Scott – Growing Up in Colonial Times (Addison-Wesley, 2000) 18 pp.
Wilmore, Kathy – A Day in the Life of a Colonial Schoolteacher (Power Kids Press, 2000) 28 pp. ToC
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Slaves
Friendly
Kleinman & Kurtis-Kleinman – Life on an African Slave Ship in The Way People Live (Lucent Books, 2001) 105 pp. ToC
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Women
ed. Berry, Daina – Ensalved Women in America: an Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2012) 405 pp. ToC
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Trades
Branse, J.L.
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Glassblower in The Library of Living & Working in Colonial Times (Power Kids Press, 2002) 27 pp. ToC
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Sea Captain (Power Kids Press, 2002) 27 pp.
Smith, Andrea – A Day in the Life of Colonial Silversmith Paul Revere (Power Kids Press, 2012) 23 pp.
Spilsbury, Louise – Horrible Jobs in Colonial Times (Raintree, 2016) 48 pp. ToC
Wilmore, Kathy
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Blacksmith (Newbridge Educational Pub., 2000) 25 pp. ToC
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Innkeeper (Power Kids Press, 2000) 26 pp. ToC
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Wigmaker (Power Kids Press, 2000) 28 pp.
Krebs, Laurie
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Miller (Power Kids Press, 2004) 27 pp.
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Doctor (Power Kids Press, 2004) 24 pp. ToC
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Indigo Planter (Power Kids, 2004) 27 pp.
Merrill, Amy
Day in the Lofe of a Colonial Cabinetmaker (Power Kids Press, 2002) 24 pp.
A Day in the Life of a Colonial Surveyor (Power Kids Press, 2002) 26 pp. ToC
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Dress
Earle, Alice M. – Costume of Colonial Times (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1894) 280 pp. ToC
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Soldiers
Short & Friendly
Branse, J.L. – A Day in the Life of a Colonial Soldier (Power Kids Press, 2002) 27 pp.
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Revolutionary War
Short & Friendly
Anderson, James – Daily Life during the American Revolution (World Almanac Library, 2006) 48 pp. ToC
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Books
Schouler, James – Americans of 1776: Daily Life in Revolutionary America (Corner House Publishers, 1984) 330 pp. ToC
Neimeyer, Charles P. – The Revolutionary War in Daily Life through History (Greenwood Press, 2007) 225 pp.
Auslander, Leora – Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life & Politics in Britain, North America & France (Univ. of California Press, 2009) 245 pp. ToC
This treats of the puritan revolution and civil war in England (1642-1651), the Revolutionary War in America (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799).
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in the American Revolution (Greenwood Press)
ed. Humphrey, Carol Sue – Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accoounts of Daily Life (Greenwood Press, 2011) 285 pp. ToC
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Connecticut
Robertson, James & Janet – All our Yesterdays: a Century of Family Life in an American Small Town [Hamptom, CT, late-1700’s to mid-1900’s] (Harper Collins, 1993) 525 pp. ToC
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City of Philadelphia
ed. Smith, Billy – Life in Early Philadelphia: Documents from the Revolutionary & Early National Periods (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1995) 325 pp. ToC
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New York City
Novel
Burdett, Charles – The Beautiful Spy. An Exciting Story of Army & High Life in New York in 1776 (Philadelphia: Potter, c. 1865) 435 pp. ToC
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Early America to Civil War
Friendly
Greenwood, Barbara – A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840 (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) 240 pp. ToC
This revolves around “a pioneer family living on a backwoods farm in 1840.” (p. 6)
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Books
Primary Sources
Wellmont, Emma – Substance & Shadows; or, Phases of Every-Day Life (Boston: Jewett, 1854) 320 pp. ToC
Savery, Lillie [Solon Robinson] – Home Comforts: or, Economy illustrated, by Familiar Scenes of Every-day Life (Bunce, 1855) 275 pp. no ToC
Jewett, Susan – The Old Corner Cupboard; or the Every-Day Life of Every-Day People (Cincinnati: truman & Spofford, 1856) 305 pp. no ToC
Morris, Robert – Courtship & Matrimony: with other Sketches from Scenes & Experiences in Social Life, particularly adapted for Every-day Reading (Philadelphia: Peterson, 1858) 515 pp. ToC
Stamer, W. – The Gentleman Emigrant: his Daily Life, Sports & Pastimes in Canada, Australia & the United States, vol. 2 (Tinsley Brothers, 1874) 310 pp. ToC
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Secondary Sources
Wharton, Anne H. – Social Life in the Early Republic (1902; Blom, 1969) 390 pp. ToC
Langdon, William C. – Everyday Things in American Life, 1776-1876 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1941) 450 pp.
Gayet, Robert – Everyday Life in the United States before the Civil War, 1830-1860 (Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1969) 310 pp. ToC
Lacour-Gayet, Robert – Everyday Life in the United States before the Civil War, 1830-1860 (Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1969) 310 pp. ToC
Wright, Louis & Elaine Fowler – Everyday Life in the New Nation, 1787-1860 (Putnam’s Sons, 1972) 250 pp. ToC
Smith, Barbara C. – After the Revolution: the Smithsonian History of Everyday Life in the Eighteenth Century (Pantheon Books, 1985) 250 pp. ToC
McCutcheon, Marc – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800’s (Writer’s Digest Books, 1993) 310 pp. ToC
ed. Hutchins, Catherine – Everyday Life in the Early Republic (Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1994) 370 pp. ToC
Larkin, Jack – The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840 (Harper Perennial, 1997) 380 pp. ToC
Heidler, David & Jeanne – The Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Creating a New Nation (Greenwood Press)
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Northeast
Books
Holbrook, John C. – Recollections of a Nonagenarian [a Person in his Nineties] of Life in New England, the Middle West & New York, including a Mission to Great Britain in behalf of the Southern Freedmen; together with Scenes in California (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1897) 360 pp. ToC
Lesley, Susan I. – Recollections of my Mother, Mrs. Anne Jean Lyman, of Northampton; being a picture of domestic and social life in New England in the first half of the Nineteenth Century (Houghton Mifflin, 1899) 515 pp. ToC
Loeb, Jr., Robert H. – New England Village: Everyday Life in 1810 with photographs from Old Sturbridge Village & Old Slater Mill (Doubleday, 1976) 115 pp.
Gilmore, William – Reading becomes a Necessity of Life: Material & Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1989) 565 pp. ToC
Robertson, James & Janet – All our Yesterdays: a Century of Family Life in an American Small Town [Hamptom, CT, late-1700’s to mid-1900’s] (Harper Collins, 1993) 525 pp. ToC
ed. Pease, Zephaniah – Life in New Bedford [MA] a Hundred Years Ago: a Chronicle of the Social, Religious & Commercial History of the Period as recorded in a Diary kept by Joseph R. Anthony (Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1922) 90 pp. no ToC
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City of Boston
Garland, Joseph E. – Boston’s North Shore, being an Account of Life among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Wealthy, Eccentric & Ordinary 1823-1890 (Little, Brown & Co., 1978) 430 pp.
Howard, Brett – Boston: a Social History (Hawthorn Books, 1976) 345 pp. ToC
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City of Philadelphia
ed. Smith, Billy – Life in Early Philadelphia: Documents from the Revolutionary & Early National Periods (Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1995) 325 pp. ToC
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New York
New York City
Books
Prime, Samuel – Life in New York [City] (Robert Carter, 1857) 245 pp. ToC
Slick, Jonathan – High Life in New York: Letters… to Weathersfield in the State of Connecticut in 1 vol. (1844; Philadelphia: Peterson, c. 1854) ToC
Dayton, Abram – Last Days of [Dutch] Knickerbocker Life in New York [City] (NY: Harlan, 1882) 280 pp. no ToC
Bender, Thomas – New York Intellect: a History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the beginnings of our own time (Knopf, 1987) 440 pp.
Burns, William – Life in New York, in Doors & out of Doors (Bunce & Brother, 1853) 90 pp. no ToC
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Historical Fiction
Gould, Edward Sherman – John Doe & Richard Roe, or, Episodes of Life in New York (Carleton, 1862) 310 pp. ToC
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City of Buffalo
Lindberg, Olga – Family Life in Early Buffalo, 1800-1840 in Adventures in Western New York History, vol. 23 (Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, 1975) 20 pp.
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Children
Speare, Elizabeth – Child Life in New England 1790 – 1840 (Old Sturbridge Village, 1969) 28 pp. no ToC
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Factories
A Factory Giril – Lights & Shadows of Factory Life in New England in ed. Park Benjamin, The New World, Extra Series, no. 51, vol. 2m, no. 27 (NY: Winchester, Feb. 1843) 30 pp. no ToC
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Mid-Atlantic
Books
Page, Thomas Nelson – Social Life in Old Virginia before the War (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897) 120 pp.
Page, Thomas N. – Social Life in Old Virginia before the War (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898) 120 pp. no ToC
Lichtenstein, Gaston – Early Social Life in Edgecombe [1732-1904]: Also, Early History of Edgecombe & a Tarborean’s Experience Abroad: Three Articles (Wm. Ellis Jones, 1904) 15 pp. no ToC
McDonald, James J. – Life in Old Virginia: a Description of Virginia, more particularly the Tidewater section, narrating many incidents relating to the manners and customs of old Virginia so fast disappearing as a result of the War between the States… (Old Virginia Publishing Co., 1907) 410 pp. ToC
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Free Blacks
Article
Milteer, Jr., Warren E. – “Life in a Great Dismal Swamp Community: Free People of Color in Pre-Civil War Gates County, North Carolina” in The North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 2 (April, 2024), pp. 144-70
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Historical Fiction
Eggleston, George Cary – Westover of Wanalah; a Story of Love & Life in Old Virginia (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1910) 470 pp. ToC
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South
Davies-Rogers, Ellen – Turns again Home: Life on an Old Tennessee Plantation Trespassed by Progress [1830 to 1992] (Plantation Press, 1992) 380 pp. ToC
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Midwest America
Holbrook, John C. – Recollections of a Nonagenarian [a Person in his Nineties] of Life in New England, the Middle West & New York, including a Mission to Great Britain in behalf of the Southern Freedmen; together with Scenes in California (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1897) 360 pp. ToC
Detzer, Laura G. – Daily Life in Early Fort Wayne [Indiana] (Public Library of Fort Wayne & Allen County, 1954) 39 pp.
Vitz, Robert – The Queen & the Arts: Cultural Life in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati (Kent State Univ. Press, 1989) 330 pp. ToC
Duis, Perry R. – Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (University of Illinois Press, 1998) 440 pp. ToC
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In the South
Short & Friendly
Erickson, Paul – Daily Life on a Southern Plantation, 1853 (Puffin Books, 2000) 47 pp. ToC
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Books
Somebody – The Night Watch, or Social Life in the South (Cincinnati, 1856) 530 pp. ToC
Smedes, Susan D. – A Southern Planter: Social Life in the Old South (Pott & Co., 1900) 365 pp. ToC
Ripley, Eliza – Social Life in Old New Orleans [1840 to 1861], being Recollections of my Girlhood (D. Appleton & Co., 1912) 360 pp. ToC
Crete, Liliane – Daily Life in Louisiana 1815-1830 tr. Patrick Gregory (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1981) 325 pp. ToC
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Southwest
Lockwood, Frank – Life in Old Tucson [Arizona] 1854-1864, as Remembered by the Little Maid Atanacia Santa Cruz (Tucson Civic Committee, 1943) 310 pp. ToC
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Scotch-Irish
Leyburn, James Graham – The Scotch-Irish: a Social History (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1962) 390 pp.
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Abraham Lincoln
Browne, Francis – The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln: a Narrative and descriptive biography with pen-pictures and personal recollections by those who knew him 2nd ed. (Chicago: Browne & Howell, 1914) 680 pp. ToC
Lincoln in the year 1855: being the day-by-day activities of Abraham Lincoln during that year (Abraham Lincoln Association, 1929) 60 pp. no ToC
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Slaves
Friendly
Kleinman & Kurtis-Kleinman – Life on an African Slave Ship in The Way People Live (Lucent Books, 2001) 105 pp. ToC
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Books
ed. Berry, Daina – Ensalved Women in America: an Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2012) 405 pp. ToC
Hudson, Larry – To have and to hold: Slave Work & Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1997) 260 pp.
Stevenson, Brenda – Life in Black & White: Family & Community in the Slave South (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996) 490 pp. ToC
.
Immigrants
Book
Bergquist, James – Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820-1870 (Greenwood Press) 320 pp. ToC
.
Food
Williams, Susan – Food in the United States, 1820’s-1890 (Greenwood Press, 2006) 260 pp.
.
Utopian Societies
Book
Kesten, Seymour – Utopian Episodes: Daily Life in Experimental Colonies dedicated to Changing the World (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1993) 355 pp. ToC
.
1800’s to Present
Popular Culture
Book
Combs, James E. – Polpop 2: Politics & Popular Culture in America Today 2nd ed. (Bowling Green Univ. Press, 1984) 180 pp. ToC
.
Novel
Finley, Martha – Elsie Dinsmore in Popular Culture in America 1800-1925 (Arno Press, 1974) 340 pp.
.
Families
Goldthorpe, J. E. – Family Life in Western Societies: a Historical Sociology of Family Relationships in Britain & North America (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987) 295 pp. ToC
.
South
Medley, Keith W. – Black Life in Old New Orleans (Pelican Publishing Co., 2014) 280 pp. ToC
Davies-Rogers, Ellen – Turns again Home: Life on an Old Tennessee Plantation Trespassed by Progress [1830 to 1992] (Plantation Press, 1992) 380 pp. ToC
.
.
1800’s
Book
Greenwood, Grace – New Life in New Lands: Notes of Travel (Ford, 1873) 420 pp. ToC
.
Families
Hareven, Tamara & Maris Vinolvskis – Family & Population in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton Univ. Press, 1978) 265 pp.
.
Science & Technology
Timmons, Todd – Science & Technology in 19th Century America in Daily Life through History (Greenwood, 2005) 220 pp. ToC
.
Nature
Black, Brian – Nature & the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life in Daily Life through History (Greenwood, 2006) 260 pp. ToC
.
New England
Children
Gemming, Elizabeth – Huckleberry Hill: Child Life in Old New England (Thomas Crowell, 1968) 155 pp. ToC
.
Books
Wiggin, Kate D. – A Thanksgiving Retrospect: or, Simplicity of Life in Old New England (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928) 45 pp. no ToC
Katz, Michael B. et al. – The Organization of Work, Schooling & Family Life in Philadelphia, 1838-1920 [in 13 Papers] (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1983) 1,700 pp. ToC
.
Novel
Munn, Charles C. – Pocket Island: a Story of Country Life in New England [1824-1870] (NY: International Association of Newspapers & Authors, 1901) 230 pp. ToC
.
Washington D.C.
Dahlgren, Madeleine V. – Etiquette of Social Life in Washington 5th ed. (1873; Lippincott, 1881) 77 pp. no ToC
.
.
1800 to 1850
Goodrich, S.G. – Personal Recollections of Poets, Philosophers & Statesmen. Being 1,001 anecdotes of life in New England [1801-1854]… Also giving numerous anecdotes concerning the private life and secret history of many personages illustrious in American public life… (Arundel Print, [1856]) 910 pp. ToC
.
.
1850 to 1900
Social History
eds. Rothman & Wheeler – Social History & Social Policy [1880-1980] (Academic Press, 1981) 345 pp. ToC
.
Families
Partridge, Bellamy & Otto Bettmann – As We Were: Family Life in America 1850-1900: in Pictures & Text (McGraw-Hill, 1946) 190 pp. ToC
.
New York City
Riis, Jacob – Out of Mulberry Street; Stories of Tenement Life in New York City (The Century Co., 1898) 275 pp. ToC
Snyder, Robert – The Voice of the City: Vaudeville & Popular Culture in New York [1850-1920] (Oxford Univ. Press, 1989) 250 pp. ToC
.
Washington D.C.
Borchert, James – Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion & Folklife in the City, 1850-1970 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1980) 345 pp.
.
Civil War
Workbook
Hazen, Walter – Everyday Life: The Civil War (Good Year Books, 1999) 98 pp. ToC
.
Books
Varhola, Michael – Everyday Life during the Civil War: a Guide for Writers, Students & Historians (Writer’s Digest Books, 1999) 280 pp.
Cimbala, Paul A. – The Civil War in Daily Life through History (Greenwood Press, 2008) 285 pp.
Volo, Dorothy & James – Daily Life in Civil War America (Greenwood Press, 2009) 415 pp. ToC
eds. Kreiser, Jr., Lawrence & Ray Browne – Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Greenwood, 2011) 255 pp. ToC
.
Abraham Lincoln
Browne, Francis – The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln: a Narrative and descriptive biography with pen-pictures and personal recollections by those who knew him 2nd ed. (Chicago: Browne & Howell, 1914) 680 pp. ToC
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North
Life in the North during the Civil War
.
Novel
Beecher, Henry Ward – Norwood: or Village Life in New England in 1 vol. (Charles Scribner, 1868) 565 pp. ToC
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South
Life in the South during the Civil War
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Nashville
Davenport, Francis Garvin – Cultural Life in Nashville: On the Eve of the Civil War (Chapel Hill, 1941) 245 pp.
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Georgia, Rural
Smith, Charles – The Farm & the Fireside: Sketches of Domestic Life in War & Peace… (Atlanta: Constitution Publishing Co., 1892) 350 pp. ToC
.
Alabama
Hague, Parthenia – A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War (Houghton Mifflin, 1888) 180 pp. ToC
.
Union Army
Hedley, F.Y. – Marching through Georgia: Pen-pictures of every-day life in General Sherman’s army, from the beginning of the Atlanta campaign until the close of the war (Chicago: Donohue, 1890) 495 pp. ToC
Stillwell, Leander – The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War (Press of the Erie Record, 1917) 155 pp. ToC
Wiley, Bell I. – bk. 1, The Life of Billy Yank ToC in The Common Soldier in the Civil War (Grosset & Dunlap, 1943), pp. 13-454
Menge & Shimrak – The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: a Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army, 1864-1865 (Ballantine Books, 1990) 215 pp. ToC
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Confederate Army
Wiley, Bell I. – bk. 2, The Life of Johnny Reb ToC in The Common Soldier in the Civil War (Grosset & Dunlap, 1943), pt. 2, pp. 13-444
ed. McNeer, Harry – The Letters of John & Susan Morgan: a Story of Everyday Life, Love & Loss in the Civil War Years (BookSurge Publishing, 2008) 100 pp.
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Civil War to 1900
Primary Sources
Books
Stamer, W. – The Gentleman Emigrant: his Daily Life, Sports & Pastimes in Canada, Australia & the United States, vol. 2 (Tinsley Brothers, 1874) 310 pp. ToC
Louis, Arthur – “Dollars or Sense?” A Tale of Every-Day Life in England & America (Brentano, 1886) 385 pp. ToC
Smith, Charles – The Farm & the Fireside [in Georgia]: Sketches of Domestic Life in War & Peace… (Atlanta: Constitution Publishing Co., 1892) 350 pp. ToC
Greenwood, Grace – New Life in New Lands: Notes of Travel (NY: Ford, 1873) 420 pp. ToC
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Women
Various – The Woman’s Book: Dealing Practically with the Modern conditions of Home-life, Self-support, Education, Opportunities and Every-Day Problems, vol. 1, 2 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1894) ToC 1, 2
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Letter Writing
Frost, S.A. – Frost’s Original Letter-Writer: a Complete Collection of Original Letters and notes upon every imaginable subject of every-day life: with plain directions about everything connected with writing a letter (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867) 240 pp. ToC
.
Music
Article
Shepard, Martha – “Forty Years of Musical Life in New England” in The New England Magazine, New Series, vol. 21, no. 2 (Oct. 1899), pp. 131-43
.
Book
Post, Jennifer – Music in Rural New England Family & Community Life, 1870-1940 (Univ. of New Hampshire Press, 2004) 330 pp.
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Secondary Sources
Walker, Robert – Everyday Life in the Age of Enterprise, 1865-1900 (Putnam’s Sons, 1967) 250 pp. ToC
Sutherland, Daniel – The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876 (Harper & Row, 1989) 320 pp. ToC
McCutcheon, Marc – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800’s (Writer’s Digest Books, 1993) 310 pp. ToC
ed. Chant, Colin – Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
Schlereth, Thomas – Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1873-1915 (Harper Collins, 1991) 410 pp. ToC
Walker, Robert H. – Everyday Life in Victorian America, 1865-1900 (Krieger Publishing Co., 1994) 250 pp. ToC
ed. Chant, Colin – Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
Clubb, Austin, Kirk, Jr. – The Process of Historical Inquiry: Everyday Lives of Working Americans [from 1880 to 1989] (Columbia Univ. Press, 1989) 220 pp.
ed. Savoury, Geraldine – My Grandmother’s Diary: the Daily Life of a 19th Century Woman [in NY & PA, 1889-1895] (Lifestyle Press, 2001) 260 pp. ToC
Brown, Joshua – Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life & the Crisis of Gilded Age America (Univ. of California Press, 2006) 385 pp. ToC
Husband, Julie & Jim O’Loughlin – The Industrial United States, 1870-1900 (Greenwood Press)
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Northeast
Historical Fiction
Robertson, Margaret – Eunice: a Story of Domestic Life in New England (NY: Anson Randolph, 1887) 315 pp. ToC
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City of Boston
Garland, Joseph E. – Boston’s North Shore, being an Account of Life among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Wealthy, Eccentric & Ordinary 1823-1890 (Little, Brown & Co., 1978) 430 pp.
Howard, Brett – Boston: a Social History (Hawthorn Books, 1976) 345 pp. ToC
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Connecticut
Robertson, James & Janet – All our Yesterdays: a Century of Family Life in an American Small Town [Hamptom, CT, late-1700’s to mid-1900’s] (Harper Collins, 1993) 525 pp. ToC
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New York & New York City
Books
McLoughlin, Maurice E. – The Gowanusians. Humorous sketches of Every-day Life among Plain People (Edmunds Publishing, 1894) 200 pp. no ToC
This treats of working-class life in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Campbell, Helen – Darkness & Daylight, or, Lights & Shadows of New York Life; a Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by day and night in the great metropolis… (Hartford Publishing Co., 1897) 750 pp. ToC
Bender, Thomas – New York Intellect: a History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the beginnings of our own time (Knopf, 1987) 440 pp.
The Great Empire City: or High & Low Life in New York: a Mirror of the Great Metropolis (Lupton, 1883) 70 pp. no ToC
McCabe, James – Life in New York: a Work descriptive of the Great American Metropolis; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtues and vices; its gorgeous palaces and dark homes of poverty and crime… (Published for the Trade, 1881) 600 pp. ToC
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Women
Ellington, George – The Women of New York, or, Social Life in the Great City (NY: NY Book Co., [c. 1870]) 725 pp. ToC
.
Immigrants
Ernst, Robert – Immigrant Life in New York City 1825-1863 (Ira Friedman, 1949) 345 pp. ToC
.
Mid-Atlantic
Washington D.C.
Pepper, Charles – Every-Day Life in Washington… with Pen & Camera (Christian Herald, 1900) 415 pp. ToC
.
Southeast
North Carolina
Lichtenstein, Gaston – Early Social Life in Edgecombe [1732-1904]: Also, Early History of Edgecombe & a Tarborean’s Experience Abroad: Three Articles (Wm. Ellis Jones, 1904) 15 pp. no ToC
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Midwest
Vitz, Robert – The Queen & the Arts: Cultural Life in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati (Kent State Univ. Press, 1989) 330 pp. ToC
Duis, Perry R. – Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (University of Illinois Press, 1998) 440 pp. ToC
.
West
California
Cox, Palmer – Squibs of California, or Every-Day Life Illustrated (Mutual Publishing, 1874) 485 pp. ToC
.
Business
Johnston, Sidney P. – The Manual of Business, being a collection of correct business forms for executing all commercial instruments, commercial data and advice on the thousand and one questions of correct methods that are constantly arising in every day business life (Chicago: S. Stern, 1902) 260 pp. ToC
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Pastors & Church
Spooner, Edward – Parson & People; or, Incidents in the Every-Day Life of a Clergyman (Huntington, 1865) 265 pp. ToC
.
Women
Book
Moon, Danelle – Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era [covering 1880 to 1980] (Greenwood, 2011) 260 pp. ToC
.
Jewish Women
Sochen, June – Consecrate Every Day: the Public Lives of Jewish American Women 1880-1980 (State Univ. of New York Press, 1981) 170 pp. ToC
.
Immigrants
Alexander, June G. – Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920 (Greenwood Press, 2007) 300 pp.
Bergquist, James – Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820-1870 (Greenwood Press, 2008) 320 pp. ToC
.
Food
Williams, Susan – Food in the United States, 1820’s-1890 (Greenwood Press, 2006) 260 pp.
.
Horse Training
Mullen, W.M. – How to Break, Educate & Handle the Horse (Chicago: Mullen, 1901) 155 pp. no ToC
.
Utopian Societies
Book
Kesten, Seymour – Utopian Episodes: Daily Life in Experimental Colonies dedicated to Changing the World (Syracuse Univ. Press, 1993) 355 pp. ToC
.
1870’s
ed. Stehlin, Stewart – Sketches of Urban & Cultural Life in North America [during 1874-1875] by Friedrich Ratzel (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1988) 345 pp. ToC
.
The Western Frontier
Short & Friendly
Hazen, Walter A. – Everyday Life: the Frontier (Good Year Books, 1998) 97 pp. ToC
Erickson, Paul – Daily Life on the Wagon Trail (Heinemann, 1998) 47 pp. ToC
Smith, Elizabeth – A Day in the Life of the Great Plains (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) 17 pp. ToC
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Primary Sources
Books
Pritts, Joseph – Incidents of Border Life, Illustrative of the Times & Condition of the First Settlements in Parts of the Middle & Western States, comprising narratives of strange and thrilling adventure… personal encounters with the Indians, descriptions of their manners, customs, modes of warfare, treatment of prisoners… To which are added brief historical sketches of the war in the North-West… (J. Pritts, 1839) 495 pp. ToC
Applegate, Jesse (Oregon Pioneer of 1843) – A Day with the Cow Column in 1843 ed. Joseph Schafer (Caxton Club, 1934) 220 pp. no ToC
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Novel
Life in the West, or the Moreton Family (American Sunday-School Union) 250 pp. ToC
.
Secondary Sources
Article
Molson, William – “Glimpses of Life in Early Oregon” in The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (1900), pp. 158-64
.
Books
Maas, Leona I. – Pioneer Life in the Middle West as Presented in the Writing of Hamlin Garland Master of Science thesis (Kansas State College, 1933) 85 pp. ToC
Wade, Richard – The Urban Frontier: Pioneer Life in Early Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Lexington, Louisville & St. Louis (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971) 360 pp. ToC
eds. Stein & Hill – The Culture of Oklahoma (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1993) 290 pp. ToC This covers the whole history of Oklahoma.
Jones, Mary Ellen – Daily Life on the 19th Century American Frontier (Greenwood Press, 1998) 280 pp.
Moulton, Candy – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the Wild West from 1840-1900 (Writer’s Digest Books, 1999) 330 pp. ToC
Maxwell-Long, Thomas – The California Gold Rush (Greenwood, 2014) 220 pp. ToC
.
Letters
ed. Neavin, Muriel – “Dear Charlie” Letters: Recording the Everyday Life of a Young 1854 Gold Miner… (Mariposa County Historical Society, 1979) 130 pp. ToC
.
Indiana
Eggleston, George – Life in Early Indiana (Public Library of Fort Wayne & Allen County, 1953) 45 pp. no ToC
Vogel, William F. – Home Life in Early Indiana (Public Library of Fort Wayne, 1954) 50 pp. no ToC
Detzer, Laura G. – Daily Life in Early Fort Wayne [Indiana] (Public Library of Fort Wayne & Allen County, 1954) 39 pp.
.
Illinois
City of Chicago
Blair, Sarah S. – Early Social Life in Chicago [1833-1865] (Chicago: Privately Printed, 1916) 38 pp. no ToC
.
Iowa
Lesson Plans
Gran, Stacy & Nancy Van Roessel – Time Detectives: a Visual Trip through Life in Early Sioux Falls: Teacher’s Manual… (Siouxland Heritage Museums, 1992) 45 pp. ToC
.
Mormons & Utah
ed. Cowley, Matthias – Wilford Woodruff: Fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: History of his Life & Labors as recorded in his daily journals (Bookcraft, 1964) 730 pp. ToC
eds. Ronald Walker & Doris Dant – Nearly Everything Imaginable: the Everyday Life of Utah’s Mormon Pioneers (Brigham Young Univ. Press, 1999) 520 pp. ToC
.
California
Holbrook, John C. – Recollections of a Nonagenarian [a Person in his Nineties] of Life in New England, the Middle West & New York, including a Mission to Great Britain in behalf of the Southern Freedmen; together with Scenes in California (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1897) 360 pp. ToC
Levy, Harriet Lane – 920 O’Farrell Street: Warm, Humorous Memoirs of Family Life in Old San Francisco [1870 to 1900] (Doubleday, 1947) 280 pp. ToC
Levy was Jewish and middle class. Here is a study on this book.
Brott, Clark W. – Moon Lee One: Life in Old Chination, Waverville, California [1850 to 1950] (Great Basin Foundation, 1982) 240 pp. ToC
Brady, Matthew – The Old Town: Real Life in Early Frisco [1850 to 1920] (San Francisco, CA: Independent Books, 1996) 135 pp. ToC
.
1900’s
Books
Dodds, John W. – Everyday Life in Twentieth Century America (Putnam, 1966) 250 pp. ToC
Clubb, Austin, Kirk, Jr. – The Process of Historical Inquiry: Everyday Lives of Working Americans [from 1880 to 1989] (Columbia Univ. Press, 1989) 220 pp.
Smith, Erin – What Would Jesus Read? Popular Religious Books & Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2015) 400 pp. ToC
ed. Cassidy, Catherine – Reminisce: Pictures from the Past: Memories, Milestones & Everyday Life from America’s Family Album (2015) 205 pp. ToC
.
Social History
Book
eds. Rothman & Wheeler – Social History & Social Policy [1880-1980] (Academic Press, 1981) 345 pp. ToC
.
Popular Culture
ed. Buhle, Paul – Popular Culture in America (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1987) 290 pp. ToC
ed. Phy, Allene – The Bible & Popular Culture in America (Fortress Press, 1985) 260 pp. ToC
Gorman, Paul R. – Left Intellectuals & Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996) 250 pp. ToC
ed. Maltby, Richard – Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the 20th Century (HARRAP, 1989) 250 pp. ToC This has also been published as: Passing Parade: a History of Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century.
.
Photos
Brown, Bruce – Images of Family Life in Magazine Advertising, 1920-1978 (Praeger, 1981) 155 pp. ToC
.
Nature
Black, Brian – Nature & the Environment in 20th Century American Life in Daily Life through History (Greenwood, 2006) 260 pp.
.
Families
eds. Coleman, Ganong & Warzinik – Family Life in 20th-Century America (Greenwood Press, 2007) 340 pp. ToC
.
Women
Moon, Danelle – Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era [covering 1880 to 1980] (Greenwood, 2011) 260 pp. ToC
.
Jewish Women
Sochen, June – Consecrate Every Day: the Public Lives of Jewish American Women 1880-1980 (State Univ. of New York Press, 1981) 170 pp. ToC
.
Growing Up
Bridgham, Alice M. – Day by Day in the Primary School (Barnes, 1907) 265 pp. no ToC
.
Clothing
Encyclopedia
ed. Kellogg, Ann – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History: 1900 to the Present, vol. 1 (1900+), 2 (1950+) (Greenwood Press, 2008) 450 pp.
.
New York City
Blacks
Thurman, Wallace – Negro Life in New York’s Harlem: a Lively Picture of a Popular & Interesting Section (Haldeman-Julius, 1927) 60 pp. ToC
.
Washington D.C.
Borchert, James – Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion & Folklife in the City, 1850-1970 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1980) 345 pp.
.
North Carolina
Wyatt, Edgar – Memories of Old Raleigh: Tales of Everyday Life in the Capital City when Living was Slow & Easy (Wyatt Classics, 1998) 125 pp. ToC
.
Kentucky
McMeekin, Martha T. – A Grandmother’s Tales of Life in Old Kentucky & Other Stories (Gateway Press, 2007) 90 pp. ToC
.
Tennessee
Davies-Rogers, Ellen – Turns again Home: Life on an Old Tennessee Plantation Trespassed by Progress [1830 to 1992] (Plantation Press, 1992) 380 pp. ToC
.
California
Photos
ed. Hill, Kimi K. – Shades of California: the Hidden Beauty of Ordinary Life: California Family Album (2001) 150 pp.
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.
1900 to 1950
Books
Schlereth, Thomas – Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1873-1915 (Harper Collins, 1991) 410 pp. ToC
Green, Harvey – The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1915-1945 (Harper Perennial, 1993) 295 pp. ToC
McCutcheon, Marc – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition [1920] through World War II (Writer’s Digest Books, 1995) 260 pp.
Kaledin, Eugenia – Daily Life in The United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds (Greenwood Press, 2000) 260 pp. ToC
Clark, Jack – On the Home Front: My Mother’s Story of Everyday American Life from Prohibition [1920] through World War II (Plume Book, 2002) 230 pp. ToC
Kyvig, David – Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939: Decades of Promise & Pain (Greenwood Press, 2002) 285 pp. ToC This was also published as: Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived through the “Roaring Twenties” and the Great Depression.
Cohen, Allen & Ronald Filippelli – Times of Sorrow & Hope: Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania during the Depression & World War II, a Photographic Record (Pennsylvania Univ. State Press, 2003) 285 pp. ToC
.
Technology & Sanitation
Richards, Ellen – Sanitation in Daily Life (Whitcomb & Barrows, 1907) 105 pp. ToC
ed. Chant, Colin – Sources for the Study of Science, Technology & Everyday Life 1870-1950 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) 200 pp. ToC
ed. Chant, Colin – Science, Technology & Everyday Life, 1870-1950 (Routledge, 1989) 385 pp. ToC
.
Northeast
Connecticut
Robertson, James & Janet – All our Yesterdays: a Century of Family Life in an American Small Town [Hamptom, CT, late-1700’s to mid-1900’s] (Harper Collins, 1993) 525 pp. ToC
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New York City
Strunsky, Simeon – Belshazzar Court; or, Village Life in New York City (Holt, 1914) 200 pp. ToC
Bender, Thomas – New York Intellect: a History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the beginnings of our own time (Knopf, 1987) 440 pp.
.
Music
Post, Jennifer – Music in Rural New England Family & Community Life, 1870-1940 (Univ. of New Hampshire Press, 2004) 330 pp.
.
Mid-Atlantic
Washington D.C.
Pearson, Drew & Robert Allen – Washington Merry-Go-Round (Horace Liveright, 1931) 365 pp. no ToC
.
New Jersey
Blacks
Survey of Negro Life in New Jersey, Community Report no. 19 (New Jersey Department of Institutions & Agencies, 1932) 60 pp. ToC
.
Midwest
Church
Landis, Benson – Rural Church Life in the Middle West, as illustrated by Clay County, Iowa, and Jennings County, Indiana, with comparative data from studies of thirty-five middle western counties (Doran [1922]) 90 pp. ToC
.
Iowa
Article
“A Symposium on Home and Family Life in a Changing Civilization. Addresses Delivered at the Second Regional Conference on Home Making Held at Ames, Iowa, November 10 and 11, 1930” in Bulletin, no. 5 (United States Government Printing Office, 1931) 35 pp. ToC
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South
New Orleans
1900 to 1950
Armstrong, Louis – Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Prentice-Hall, 1954) 240 pp. no ToC
This is an autobiography of Armstrong, a famous musician.
.
Southwest
eds. Patrick, Elizabeth & R.T. King – Women, Children & Family Life in the Nevada Interior, 1900-1930s (Univ. of Nevada Oral History Program, 1987) 82 pp. ToC
.
Immigrants
Alexander, June G. – Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920 (Greenwood Press, 2007) 300 pp.
.
Families & Women
Tentler, Leslie W. – Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work & Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1982) 260 pp. ToC
.
Youth, Female
Duzer, Hawkins, Andrix, Hemmersbaugh, Bobenmyer, Page – The Girl’s Daily Life (Lippincott, 1944) 655 pp.
Preface: “The purpose of this book is to develop standards of living and appreciation of the value of personal and social development in the high school girl.”
.
Prisons
Blue, Ethan – Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas & California Prisons (New York Univ. Press, 2012) 330 pp. ToC
.
At Sea
Perry, Frederick – Fair Winds & Foul: a Narrative of Daily Life Aboard an American Clipper Ship (London: Martin Hopkinson, 1925) 225 pp. ToC
.
Illinois
Reid’s Brochure of a Busy American Industrial City: Pana, Illinois: some luminous phases of its every-day life, present activities and future possibilities: a graphic sketch of a thriving city located on the lines of four transcontinental railroads, with water and coal, and all modern facilities requisite for the biggest of “big business” (James Allan Reid, 1913) 65 pp. no ToC
Duis, Perry R. – Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (University of Illinois Press, 1998) 440 pp. ToC
.
.
1920’s
Books
McCutcheon, Marc – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition [1920] through World War II (Writer’s Digest Books, 1995) 260 pp.
Baritz, Loren – The Culture of the Twenties in The American Heritage Series (Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing, 1970) 490 pp. ToC
Kyvig, David – Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939: Decades of Promise & Pain (Greenwood Press, 2002) 285 pp. ToC This was also published as: Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived through the “Roaring Twenties” and the Great Depression.
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.
1930’s
Popular Culture
Tanner, Louise – All the things we were: a Scrapbook of the People, Politics & Popular Culture in the Tragicomic Years between the Crash [1929] & Pearl Harbor [1941] (Doubleday, 1968) 395 pp. ToC
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.
1950 to 2000
Short & Friendly
Lewis, Clare – Home Life through the Years: How Daily Life has changed in Living Memory (Raintree, 2015) 27 pp. ToC
.
Books
Moore, Jr., William – The Vertical Ghetto: Everyday Life in an Urban Project (Random House, 1969) 285 pp.
Feinsilber, Mike & William Mead – American Averages: Amazing Facts of Everyday Life (Dolphin Books, 1980) 430 pp. ToC
Ryle, Nancy – Catastrophes & Celebrations: One Woman’s Look at the Ups & Downs of Everyday Life (Cherokee Publishing Company, 1985) 255 pp. ToC
Spears, Richard – Common American Phrases in Everyday Contexts: a Detailed Guide to Real-Life Conversation & Small Talk (NTC Publishing Group, 1992) 285 pp. ToC This is dictionary, in alphabetical order.
Marty, Myron – Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990: Decades of Discord (Greenwood Press, 1997) 395 pp. ToC
Shine, T.M. – Timeline: a Month in the Life of a Guy who refuses to have money taken out of his paycheck for United Way; a guy who always eats lunch alone; a guy so fascinated with time that he documents the way he spends it–every day, every hour, every minute, every second (Andrews McMeel, 2001) 140 pp. no ToC
This humorous work documents every hour of 31 days of this guy’s life.
Kaledin, Eugenia – Daily Life in The United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds (Greenwood Press)
ed. Klein, Michael – The Vietnam Era: Media & Popular Culture in the US & Vietnam [1950 to 2000] (Pluto Press, 1989) 230 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
ed. Lewis, George – Side-Saddle on the Golden Calf: Social Structure & Popular Culture in America (Goodyear, 1972) 410 pp. ToC
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Autobiography
Hall, Edward – An Anthropology of Everyday Life: an Autobiography [1914-1992] (Doubleday, 1992) 280 pp. ToC
Hall (1914-2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher.
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Families
Article
Saluter, Arlene – “Changes in American Family Life” (Bureau of the Census, 1989) 37 pp. ToC
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Bibliography
“Bibliography of Research in Children, Youth & Family Life” (University of Michigan, 1970) 20 pp. no ToC
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Elderly
ed. Altergott, Karen – Daily Life in Later Life: Comparative Perspectives (Sage Publications, 1988) 250 pp. ToC
Shield, Renee R. – Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home (Cornell Univ. Press, 1988) 255 pp. ToC
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Working Life
Generally
Lendler, Marc – Just the Working Life: Opposition & Accommodation in Daily Industrial Life (Sharpe, Inc., 1990) 240 pp.
Leidner, Robin – Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work & the Routinization of Everyday Life (Univ. of California Press, 1993) 285 pp. ToC The reasearch for this book occured in the late-1980’s.
Rubin, Lillian – Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family (Basic Books, 1976) 270 pp. ToC
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Specific Trades
See search results for “a day in the life” at Internet Archive.
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Blacks
eds. Taylor, Jackson & Chatters – Family Life in Black America (Sage, 1997) 385 pp. ToC
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Growing Up
Short & Friendly
Lach, Will – Norman Rockwell’s A Day in the Life of a Girl [in 1952] (Abbeville Kids, 2017) 50 pp.
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Books
Serjeant, F. Irene – From Day to Day in the Infant School [5-7 year olds] (Blackie, 1952) 125 pp. ToC
eds. Cessna, Foster & Jacobs – Growing Up in America (Information Plus, 1993) 125 pp. ToC
Barnes, Thompson, Daniel & Burchardt – Growing Up in Step Families (Clarendon Press, 1994) 340 pp.
eds. Blair, Siegel, Quiram – Growing Up in America (Information Plus, 1997) 180 pp. ToC
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New York City
White, Edmund – City Boy: My Life in New York during the 1960s & 70s (Bloomsbury, 2010) 300 pp.
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Media, Television, Computers & Video Games, especially with Children
Articles
Lyle, Jack & Heidi Hoffman – “Television in the Daily Lives of Children” ERIC ED 0535 75 (Department of Journalism, UCLA, 1971) 20 pp.
Dorr, Aimee – “Television’s Role in Family Life” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (1981) 10 pp.
Welch, Alicia – “The Role of Books, Television, Computers & Video Games in Children’s Day to Day Lives” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (1995) 24 pp.
This involved kids in grades 3-4 in Connecticut.
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Books
Berger, Arthur – Television as an Instrument of Terror: Essays on Media, Popular Culture & Everyday Life (Transaction Books, 1978) 225 pp. ToC
Kubey, Robert & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Television & the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990) 305 pp.
eds. Charlton, Michael & Ben Bachmair – Media Communication in Everyday Life: Interpretative Studies on Children’s & Young People’s Media Actions (Saur, 1990) 215 pp.
Stewart, Donald – The Television Family: a Content Analysis of the Portrayal of Family Life in Prime Time Television (Melbourne: Institute of Family Studies, 1983) 75 opp. ToC
Cantor, Paul – Gilligan[‘s Island] Unbound: Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization [1960-2000’s] (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) 300 pp. ToC
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Mafia & Gangs
Pileggi, Nicholas – Wiseguy: the Shocking True Story of Life in a Mafia Family (Corgi, 1987) 275 pp.
Decker & van Winkle – Life in the Gang: Family, Friends & Violence (Cambrdige Univ. Press, 1996) 310 pp. ToC
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New England
Welsch, Ulrike – Faces of New England: Special Moments from Everyday Life (1983) 148 pp.
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Kentucky
Article
Coleman & Gabbard – “Is the Quality of Life in the Kentucky Mountains Improving? The Opinions of Community “Knowledgeables” & Ordinary Residents in Four Eastern Kentucky Counties” (Univ. of Kentucky Dept. of Sociology, 1974) 10 pp.
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Heartland & Midwest
La Ferle, Cynthia – Old Houses, Good Neighbors: Reflections & Celebrations of Everyday Life in a Midwestern Town (Self-Reliance Press, 1994) 100 pp. ToC
Chartrand – A View from the Heartland: Everyday Life in America (Globe Pequot Press, 2004) 200 pp. ToC
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South
eds. Stein & Hill – The Culture of Oklahoma (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1993) 290 pp. ToC
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West
Schools
Article
Boyle, Kathleen – “School’s a Rough Place: Youth Gangs, Drug Users, and Family Life in Los Angeles. Draft.” (Office of Educational Research & Improvement, 1992) 55 pp. no ToC
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Alaska
Lord, Nancy – Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore [1979-1996] (Island Press, 1997) 280 pp. ToC
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Hawaii
Photos
A Day in the Life of Hawaii [Dec. 2, 1983] (Workman Publishing, 1984) 220 pp.
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1950’s
Popular Culture
Salamone, Frank – Popular Culture in the Fifties (Univ. Press of America, 2001) 215 pp. ToC
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TV
Marling, Karal A. – As Seen on TV: the Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950’s (Harvard Univ. Press, 1996) 330 pp. ToC
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Growing Up
Hunter, Rebecca – Growing Up in the Fifties (Hodder, Wayland, 2001) 33 pp. ToC
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1960’s
Families
Alesi, Gladys & Dora Pantell – Family Life in the U.S.A.: an Elementary Reader in English as a Foreign Language (Regents, 1962) 135 pp. ToC
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Suburbs
Gans, Herbert – The Levittowners: Ways of Life & Politics in a New Suburban Community (Pantheon, 1962) 500 pp. ToC
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1970’s
Families & Work
Kamerman, Sheila – Parenting in an Unresponsive Society: Managing Work & Family Life (Free Press, 1980) 200 pp. ToC
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Women
ed. Inness, Sherrie – Disco Divas: Women & Popular Culture in the 1970’s (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2003) 240 pp. ToC
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On Welfare
Sandberg, Neil C. – Stairwell 7: Family Life in the Welfare State (Sage, 1978) 230 pp. ToC
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1980’s
Book
Various – A Corporate Reader: Work & Family Life in the 1980’s (Washington DC: Children’s Defense Fund, 1983) 160 pp. ToC
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Photos
A Day in the Life of America: Photographed by 200 of the World’s Leading Photojournalists on One Day, May 2, 1986 (Collins, 1987) 270 pp.
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New York
Cochran, Moncrieff et al. – Contexts for Childrearing: The Ecology of Family Life in Syracuse, New York. A Final Report to the National Institute of Education (Cornell Univ., 1981) 660 pp. ToC
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Louisiana
Article
Deseran, Forrest et al. – “Farm Family Life in Louisiana” in Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, bulletin no. 770 (Louisiana State Univ. Agricultural Center, Sept. 1985), pp. 2-32
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Cold War
Inglis, Fred – The Cruel Peace: Everyday Life in the Cold War (Basic Books, 1991) 510 pp. ToC
Whitefield, Stephen – The Culture of the Cold War (John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996) 280 pp. ToC
Steege, Paul – Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007) 370 pp.
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2000’s
Books
ed. Baker, Lee – Life in America: Identity & Everyday Experience (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) 445 pp. ToC
Fogly, Mortiner B. – Sketches of America: Illustrative of Everyday Life & Everyday People (Tamar Press, 2006) 77 pp. ToC
These are the impressions of a foreigner, which are quite humorous.
Langley, Paul – The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving & Borrowing in Anglo-America (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) 315 pp.
Mills, Steve – Live & Work in America: Comprehensive, Up-to-Date, Practical Information about Everyday Life in the United States (2009) 325 pp. ToC
Lewis, Phillipson, Yarker & Lang – COVID-19, Inequality & Older People: Everyday Life during the Pandemic (Policy Press, 2023) 170 pp. ToC
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Popular Culture
ed. Levine, Elana – Cupcakes, Pinterest & Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2015) 285 pp. ToC
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Families & Women
Wohlmuth, Saline & Sheggeby – A Day in the Life of the American Woman (Bulfinch Press, 2005) 170 pp.
eds. Tsuya & Bumpass – Marriage, Work & Family Life in Comparative Perspective: Japan, South Korea & the United States (Univ. of Hawai’i Press, 2004) 190 pp. ToC
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Black Persons
Fleisher, Mark S. – Living Black: Social Life in an African American Neighborhood (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2015) 170 pp.
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Arab Americans
eds. Ameri, Anan & Holly Arida – Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century (Greenwood Press, 2012) 285 pp. ToC
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Cities
Short & Friendly
Flatt, Lizann – Life in an Industrial City (Crabtree, 2010) 35 pp. ToC
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Specific Trades
See search results for “a day in the life” at Internet Archive.
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Prisons & their Families
Rabiger, Joanna – Crime & Detection: Daily Prison Life (Mason Crest Publishers, 2003) 95 pp. ToC See also the 2016 edition.
Byrne, Hummer & Taxman – The Culture of Prison Violence (Pearson, 2008) 230 pp. ToC
Braman, Donald – Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration & Family Life in Urban America (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2004) 275 pp. ToC
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Northeast
New York City
Cangro, Jacquelin – The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Plume, 2006) 210 pp. ToC
Pedersen, Laura – Life in New York: how I learned to love squeegee men, token suckers, trash twisters and subway sharks (Fulcrum, 2015) 190 pp. ToC
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Midwest
Garvin, Ben – Ant Farm: Glimpses of Daily Life in Minnesota (Nodin Press, 2009) 94 pp. no ToC
Peterson, Mary P. – Life is so Daily in Cincinnati (Cincinnati Book Publishers, 2012) 120 pp. ToC
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South
Cotton, Deborah – Notes from New Orleans: Spicy, colorful tales of politics, people, food, drink, men, music, and life in post-breaches New Orleans [2005-2007] ([Cafe Press?] 2007) 185 pp. no ToC
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West
California
Boardman, Elizabeth – I’m not a Tourist, I Live Here! Stories from Ordinary Life in San Francisco (2011) ToC
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Northwest America
Lyons, Stephen – A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America (Globe Pequot Press, 2004) 200 pp. ToC
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Iraq War, 2003-2011
ed. Steed, Brian – Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Greenwood, 2016) 325 pp.
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