Introduction: American Homes and American Scholars
1
(24)
Thomas J. Schlereth
PART I. ROOM LIFE
The Modern Look of the Early Twentieth-Century House: A Mirror of Changing Lifestyles
25
(24)
Candace M. Volz
The Decline of the Memory Palace: The Parlor after 1890
49
(26)
Katherine C. Grier
Children in the House, 1890 to 1930
75
(19)
Karin Calvert
Home Libraries: Special Spaces, Reading Places
94
(26)
Linda M. Kruger
A History of American Beds and Bedrooms, 1890--1930
120
(25)
Elizabeth Collins Cromley
PART II. HOME LIFE
``The Family That Plays Together Stays Together'': Family Pastimes and Indoor Amusements, 1890--1930
145
(17)
Donna R. Braden
Parlor Piety: The Home as Sacred Space in Protestant America
162
(28)
Colleen McDannell
Gardens of Change
190
(21)
Patricia M. Tice
PART III. KEEPING HOUSE
Coal Stoves and Clean Sinks: Housework between 1890 and 1930
211
(14)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Conduits and Conduct: Home Utilities in Victorian America, 1876-1915
225
(17)
Thomas J. Schlereth
Modernizing Domestic Service
242
(25)
Daniel E. Sutherland
Contributors
267
(4)
Index
271
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