Alice Morse Earle was one of the most popular historians of everyday American life in the late nineteenth century, and Home Life in Colonial Days is her most celebrated work. Covering food, clothing, shelter, housekeeping, travel, and domestic crafts, the book paints a vivid and meticulously researched picture of how ordinary Americans lived from the earliest settlements through the Revolutionary era.
Earle’s scholarship is grounded in original documents, probate inventories, diaries, and material culture, making the book authoritative as well as entertaining. Download this free EPUB for an indispensable guide to the textures of daily life in colonial America.