...The “domestic scientists” was a group of first generation home economists that launched an educational reform movement to guide homemakers in performing domestic work efficiently and managing household budgets economically. This book discusses the initial experiences of early home economists...

...This chapter examines the emergence of the home economics movement in the years before 1920. It situates the origins of home economics within the context of the Progressive Era reform, the emergence of American higher education, and the development of a modern consumer society. It begins...

...This chapter focuses on the set of professional ideals that business home economists brought with them to full-time employment with corporate manufacturers of foodstuffs, appliances, textiles, and other consumer products. It first discusses Experiment 63, a play that dramatizes...

...This chapter explores the impact of the consumer and feminist movements of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s on home economists' identity as consumer experts and representatives of the “woman's viewpoint”. Challenges to the profession intensified as members of the baby boomer generation questioned...

...This chapter examines why Free to Be … You and Me—both the book and record—might have been kept from the author's childhood home. The author's family held some, at least, vaguely left-leaning values, especially concerning “social issues.” There were both Democrats and Republicans...

...Although North Carolina was a “home front” state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result. North Carolinians were divided over the issue of secession, and changes in race and gender...

... among Native Americans. It looks at the Indian struggle in 1989–2006 for more power in the Home Missions Department and the failed attempt to create a separate Native American Department under the Home Missions/Special Ministries umbrella. Finally, the chapter explores the recent Native American...

....” This chapter depicts the Catholic filling of the southern interior in four waves: first, select immigrant towns were established like Cullman, Alabama in the 19th century, home to a Benedictine monastery; a second wave came in the early and mid-20th century with the Glenmary Home Missioners and a colorful nun...

...Two African American women whose babies Lovie delivered in the 1960s, Connie Corey and Doris Wilson, recount their experiences of having Lovie Shelton as their midwife for their home births. Doris Wilson tells the story of the breech birth of her first child, how Lovie urged her to get birth...

... teachers of midwifery from any era and the author of the Textbook for Midwives, the first midwifery text by a midwife for midwives. Lovie’s classmates came to call her “Sister Carolina” after her home state. In this chapter Lovie discusses her training: she spent the first six months...

... birth center, and ultimately decides to have a home birth with nurse-midwife Nancy Harman in attendance. This chapter also unfolds the story of the narrator’s home birth. Before moving with her husband and daughter to Munich, Germany to open a bookshop, the narrator visits Lovie with her baby...

... End of life care Administrators Advance care planning Palliative care Saunders Cecily Cancer Home medical Integration of care Medical home Collaboration GRACE model Guided Care Teams collaborative Home visits House calls Reisman Anna Veterans Administration VA Home Based Primary Care...

... copied his program, in part because it offered a means for addressing relentless pressure for new admissions and perpetual funding challenges. By providing what were, in effect, early group homes and astutely fitting people to appropriate positions, Bernstein managed to turn many, albeit not most, asylum...

...Asking “how far America was from the world? and “where in the world has it been imagined,” this chapter explores the many contours of late nineteenth-century US geography education, especially the pedagogic concept of “home geography”—a model that intended to foster local experiences...

... the writing child related to American and non-American worlds as practices in home geography. The chapter establishes that the repository of children’s letters found in the juvenile periodicals of the time provides an essential supplement to the publicly available documents that were generated by adults...

..., it was children who inherited these narratives and acted as more than mere performers of the empire’s scripts of fate and fiasco. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Twain children’s toys and games home geography Maps Microhistory semiotics of the overlooked Tom Sawyer Abroad Twain U S Empire Western...

...Chapter 5 investigates how, back “home” in Britain, British military officers’ production of ornithological knowledge in the British Mediterranean helped reformulate notions of nation and “British birds.” It focuses on Captain Philip Savile Grey Reid (1845–1915), Royal Engineers, as a homeward...

... brought to the issue of home rule, and also in part to Lyndon Johnson’s own political calculus, the president issued a partial home rule measure. But while African Americans ascended to local political office, powerful white stakeholders, along with members of the Johnson administration and Congress...

... conditions would improve. The Union army made it an official policy to “break the spirit of the people” by “reducing them to the most abject condition of poverty, destitution and dependence.” The chapter looks at how the military crisis of 1864 forced white men on the home front to choose between caring...

...This chapter focuses on the third year of the Civil War, wherein military fortunes and home front conditions assumed a curiously inverted relationship. At the start of 1863, the Federal army was recovering from its debilitating defeat at Fredericksburg and confined to the northeastern corner...