Social History

Social history is a branch of history that includes history of ordinary people and their way of life

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
How to Be a Victorian
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Karl Jacoby
Because neither corn nor wheat grew well in the Adirondacks, the favored crop was potatoes ("Our food was mostly fish and potatoes then for a change we would have potatoes and fish," recalled one early inhabitant), occasionally supplemented by peas, rye, buckwheat, or oats. ...more
Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Deborah L. Halliday
Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. ‘I think I’ll add a little chili powder.’” ~ Seth Asa, age 37 Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012
Deborah L Halliday

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