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8 de dez. de 2022 · Discover fascinating stories of the people and events during this inventive time that changed America forever. Learn about inventions, politics, sports, Wall...
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What Life Was Like In 1940s In AMERICAUnited States of America is well-known or popular for it's music, food, sports, technological innovations, historical p...
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As you read the documents in this section, try to infer what makes rural and small town life special. Do those qualities still exist in rural and small town America today? To find other documents in Loc.gov relating to this topic, search using such keywords as agriculture , farms or farmers , ranches or ranchers , small towns , rural life , rural folkways , and village .
24 de mai. de 2019 · If you survived childhood, you had a good chance of living to be 60 or even 70. But by that time you were so worn out by all the work, you were ready. By the time you were 40 your skin was very wrinkled, you had lost most of your teeth, and every joint hurt—all the time. Yup, life in the 1800s: the “good old days.”.
Between 1874 and 1879 emigration declined somewhat, but after 1880 economic fluctuations fuelled the next and largest wave of emigration, which only began to subside in the mid-1890s. This report by a British royal commission analyzes the causes and effects of German emigration. It highlights low wages, a lack of employment opportunities, and ...
Everyday Life in America. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans experienced remarkable changes in their everyday life, from the clothes they wore and food they ate to their opportunities for recreation. Mail order catalogs allowed rural residents to buy new equipment and follow the latest trends in fashion or household appliances ...
Leavitt, Brought to Bed; Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz, Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America (New Haven: CT: Yale University Press, 1989); Molly Ladd-Taylor, Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890–1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994); Janet L. Golden, A Social History of Wet Nursing in America: From Breast to Bottle (New York: Cambridge University ...
