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Architecture

Irene Cieraad.  "'Out of My Kitchen!' Architecture, Gender and Domestic Efficiency." Journal of Architecture; Autumn2002, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p263-279.

Merritt Ierley.  "The Bathroom: An Epic." American Heritage 50.3 (May 1999): 76(1)

Bridget A. May.  "Advice on White: An Anthology of Nineteenth-century Design Critics' Recommendations."  Journal of American Culture.  Winter93, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p19.

From the NY Times Historical Archives:

Mr. Carnegie's New Home.  New York Times. July 27, 1899.

The Building of American Homes.   New York Times. October 15, 1922.

Auction Sale - 10 Brand New, Beautiful Homes (display ad).  New York Times. January 15, 1928.

Culture
J.S. Kasson.  "Power and Powerless: Death, Sexuality, and the Demonic in Nineteenth-century American Culture."  Women's Studies; 1988, Vol. 15, p343-367.

Huping Ling.  "Family and Marriage of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Chinese Immigrant Women."  Journal of American Ethnic History 19.2 (Wntr 2000): p43.

Joanne E. Passet.   "Freethought Children's Literature and the Construction of Religious Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America."  Book History; 2005, Vol. 8, p107-129.

Walker Rumble.  "From the Shop Floor to the Show: Joseph W. McCann, Typesetting Races, and Expressive Work in 19th-Century America."  Journal of Popular Culture; Fall98, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p87.

Sharon Sassler.  "Trade-offs in the Family: Sibling Effects on Daughters' Activities in 1910." Demography.  Nov 1995. Vol. 32, Iss. 4; p. 557.

Juliann Sivulka.  "From Domestic to Municipal Housekeeper: The Influence of the Sanitary Reform Movement on Changing Women's Roles in America, 1860-1920."  Journal of American Culture,  Winter99, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p1.

From the NY Times Historical Archives:

The Feeding of New York's Down Town Women Workers -- A New Social Phenomenon.  New York Times.  October 5, 1905.

Housekeeping Is a Complicated Problem; League for Home Economics Starts a Campaign Which Promises to Help Out the Amateur in Matrimony.  New York Times.  November 24, 1907.

Where They Make Housekeeping a Learned Profession.  New York Times.  September 4, 1910. 

Managing a Household Efficiently - Mrs. Robert A. Franks Says Running It Is a Business Obligation and Should Be Done Well by Every Woman Who Undertakes It.  New York Times.  January 31, 1915. 

Economics

Margaret Coleman.  "Homemaker as Worker in the United States." Challenge. Nov/Dec 1998. Vol. 41, Iss. 6; p. 75.

Siobhan Moroney.  "Widows and orphans: Women's education beyond the domestic ideal."  Journal of Family History; Jan2000, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p26.

Reva B Siegel.  "Valuing Housework: Nineteenth-Century Anxieties about the Commodification of Domestic Labor."   The American Behavioral Scientist. Aug 1998. Vol. 41, Iss. 10; p. 1437.

Terrence H. Witkowski.  "Painting the Domestication of Consumption in 19th-Century America." Advances in Consumer Research; 1999, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p644-651.

From the NY Times Historical Archives:

Lady Henry Helps Clear Up the Dishes.  New York Times. December 30, 1911.

Plans to Divert Girls from Factories to Homes.  New York Times. July 19, 1914.

Park Avenue Real Estate Values Double in Ten Years.  New York Times. August 31, 1924.

Frontier Life

Annie P. Baker.  "Daughters of Mars: Army Officers' Wives and Military Culture on the American Frontier." The Historian 67.1 (Spring 2005): p20.

Daniel Justin Herman.  "The Hunter's Aim: The Cultural Politics of American Sport Hunters, 1880-1910."  Journal of Leisure Research. Arlington: Fourth Quarter 2003.Vol.35, Iss. 4; pg. 455.

Sean McCollum.  "Women on the Lone Prairie: Recollections of Women Settlers Tell what it Took to Conquer the American Frontier." Scholastic Update v130.n4 (Oct 20, 1997): pp18.

From the NY Times Historical Archives:

Sitting Bull - Life on the Frontier.  New York Times. January 14, 1880

Tamers of Wild Peoples - Trials and Triumphs of American Home Missionaries. New York Times.  December 22, 1895.

Goldfield Joins Dead Boom-Cities.  New York Times.  October 19, 1924

Law

Jeffrey L. Geller; Jonathon Erlen; Neil S. Kaye; William H. Fischer.  "Feigned Insanity in Nineteenth-Century America: Tactics, Trials, and Truth."  Behavioral Sciences & the Law; Winter90, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p3-26.

Sarah Barringer Gordon.  "The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America."  Journal of Supreme Court History; 2003, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p14-29.

Harvard Law Review.  "The Right to Privacy in Nineteenth Century America".  Harvard Law Review Jun81, Vol. 94 Issue 8, p1982.

Beverly Schwartzberg.   "'Lots of Them Did That': Desertion Bigamy and Marital Fluidity in Late Nineteenth-century America." Journal of Social History; Spring2004, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p573-600.

Reva B. Siegel. "The Rule of Love: Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy." Yale Law Journal 105.n8 (June 1996), 2117-2207.

From the NY Times Historical Archives:

Woman Suffrage - Trial of Miss Susan B. Anthony for Illegal Voting ... The Testimony and the Arguments.   New York Times.  June 18, 1873.

A Clergyman's Disgrace - The Rev. T.B. Bott of Staten Island Accused of Wife-Beating.  New York Times.  August 10, 1888.

Wife-Beating.  New York Times.  January 5, 1896.

Right of Privacy Includes Telephone - Decision of Justice Wauhope Lynn Stirs Up Apartment House Landlords.  New York Times.  December 1, 1907.

Politics

Peter H. Argersinger.  "Taubeneck's Laws: Third Parties in American Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century."   American Nineteenth Century History; Summer2002, Vol. 3 Issue 2, p93.

Amanda Frisken.  "Sex in Politics: Victoria Woodhull as an American Public Woman, 1870-1876."  Journal of Women's History.  Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 89-111.

Allan J. Lichtman.  "Political Realignment and the 'Ethnocultural' Voting in Late Nineteenth Century America."  Journal of Social History; Summer83, Vol. 16 Issue 4.
 

From the NY Times Historical Archives:

Shall Women Vote? -  Lecture by Anna E. Dickinson.  New York Times.  April 6, 1870.

The Young Men's Woman's Suffrage League.  New York Times.  November 19, 1874.

The Ballot for Women.  New York Times.  May 9, 1894.

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Politics.  New York Times.  February 21, 1904

Technology

William D. and Deborah C. Andrews.  "Technology and the Housewife in Nineteenth-Century America."  Women's Studies; 1974, Vol. 2 Issue 3, p309.

Claude S. Fischer.  "The Revolution Rural Telephony, 1900-1920."  Journal of Social History, Fall87, Vol. 21 Issue 1.

From the NY Times Historical Archives:

Electric Light.  The New York Times.  May 21, 1877.

A Rival of Telegraphy - The History and Possibilities of the Telephone.  The New York Times.  February 7, 1881.

How a Big Laundry is Done.  The New York Times.  March 22, 1885.

Cooking by Electricity.  The New York Times.  May 22, 1898.

Her Inventive Genius - How Lovely Woman Is on Record in the Patent Office.  The New York Times.  June 9, 1895.

Making the Home Efficient.  The New York Times.  July 25, 1915.

 

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