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http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/ 

 HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home
Economics and related disciplines. Titles published between 1850 and 1950
were selected and ranked by teams of scholars for their great historical
importance. The first phase of this project focused on books published
between 1850 and 1925 and a small number of journals. Future phases of the
project will include books published between 1926 and 1950, as well as
additional journals. The full text of these materials, as well as
bibliographies and essays on the wide array of subjects relating to Home
Economics, are all freely accessible on this site. This is the first time a
collection of this scale and scope has been made available.

"Home Economists in early 20th century America had a major role in the
Progressive Era, the development of the welfare state, the triumph of
modern hygiene and scientific medicine, the application of scientific
research in a number of industries, and the popularization of important
research on child development, family health, and family economics. What
other group of American women did so much, all over the country, and got so
little credit? ... We must do everything we can to preserve and organize
records and materials from this important female ghetto."

    - Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and
Professor, Cornell University College of Human Ecology and author of The
Body Project: an Intimate History of American Girls.