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Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH) <http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html>. Created and maintained by the Mann Library at Cornell University. Reviewed Aug. 18–Sept. 18, 2005.
Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History (HEARTH) is an important new online collection of books and journals published in the field of home economics during the period 1850 to 1950. The Mann Library at Cornell University created and maintained the site and also hosts From Domesticity to Modernity: What was Home Economics? <http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/default.html>.	1
As Martin Heggestad, a bibliographer, writes in the introductory essay to the site, researchers in women's history are beginning to reevaluate home economics, "developing an understanding of it as a profession that, although in some ways conservative in its outlook, opened up opportunities for women and had a broad impact on American society." The archived sources support this assertion. Texts such as Ellen Richards's Air, Water, and Food from a Sanitary Standpoint (1900) illustrate the field's early emphasis on "scientific housekeeping," household efficiency, and the professionalization of homemaking skills. In order to demonstrate the range and breadth of the field, the site archived a broad array of sources, from works on architecture to child psychology textbooks to published surveys of wage-earning women.	. . .

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