Galleries on this site 

Gilded Age-Roaring Twenties

• Mail-order houses in the early twentieth century

• Commerce & Domesticity, 1869-1928

• Domesticity and Inequality, 1865-1928

• Scenes of Rural Life, 1890-1920

• Domesticating the West, 1870-1920

• Technological Wonders, 1870-1928

Great Depression

• Domesticity in an Age of Deprivation, 1929-1939

• WPA Posters: Domestic Themes, 1929-1940

• Scenes of Rural Life, 1930-1941

World War II

• The Patriotic Housewife, 1941-1945

• Defining the Wartime Home, 1941-1945

Cold War

• The Spread of the American Suburb

• Television: The Key to a Happy Home

• Is Your Floor Really Clean? Domestic Anxiety, 1950-1963

1960's - 1970's

• Home Decor, 1965-1975

• The Kitchen as Prison: The Feminist Critique of the Traditional Home

• Scenes of Rural Life, 1960-1975

Postmodern Age

• Suburban Sprawl, 1980-2005

• Homeless in a Home-Centered World, 1980-2000

• Totally Wired: Domesticity and Social Speed-up, 1990-2005

Scholarship on the history of the home and domestic life  

Gilded Age

Roaring 20's

Great Depression

World War Two

Cold War

1960's-1970's

Postmodern Era