Better Homes and Gardens.
Heritage Cookbook
. Meredith Corporation. 1975. (Historical details, illustrations and photographs accompany the regional recipes.)
Black, Naomi and Mary Forsell,
The New England Companion.
New York, New York: Mallard Press. 1991. (Excellent photographs with recipes and craft directions, many from colonial times.)
Bowne, Eliza Southgate.
A Girl’s Life Eighty Years Ago, Selections Form the Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne, with An Introduction by Clarence Cook.
Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers. 1980. (A collection of letters written between 1797 and 1809, by a young woman who died at age twenty-five.)
Calvert, Karin.
Children In The House, The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900.
Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1992. (Explains attitudes toward children, including gender and age restrictions. Methods and objects of child care.)
Clark, Imogen.
Old Days and Old Ways.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1928. (Covers a broad geographic area. Describes experiences of a wide range of people. Mainly eighteenth century.)
Cunningham, Jim C.
Cunningham’s New England Flowers, Coloring Book.
Enosburg Falls: Vermont: Mt. Carmel Academy. 1989. (Illustrations and descriptions of flowers enjoyed, and/or utilized in early America.)
Demos, John.
A Little Commonwealth, Family Life in Plymouth Colony.
London, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 1970. (Excellent commentary on the everyday life and beliefs of Puritan family members and life stages in the seventeenth century.)
Drake, Jane and Ann Love.
The Kids’ Summer Handbook.
New York: Ticknor & Fields/ Books for Young Readers. 1994. (Compilation of many activities, many of which can be adapted to colonial times.)
Earle, Alice Morse.
Child Life in Colonial Days.
New York: The Macmillan Company. 1927. (Exceptional study of the numerous aspects of the various stages of a child’s life.)
Earle, Alice Morse.
Home Life in Colonial Days.
Williamstown, Massachusetts: Corner House Publishers. 1989. (Excellent descriptions of objects and the uses.)
Hawke, David Freeman.
Everyday Life in Early America.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. 1988. (Insights into the creation of homes, communities and life styles in the new world.)
Hayward, Arthur H.
Colonial Lighting.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1962. (Excellent descriptions, photographs and illustrations of a wide variety of light sources.)
Hechtlinger, Adelaide.
The Seasonal Hearth, The Woman at Home in Early America.
Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. 1977. (Compilation of activities, letters, recipes, remedies, etc. Many illustrations.)
Lane, Rose Wilder.
Book of American Needlework
. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1963. (Large compilation of needlecrafts with directions. Many from colonial period.)
Leonard , Eugenie Andruss.
The Dear-Bought Heritage
. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1965. (Discusses the difficult role of the colonial woman in regard to household tasks, family responsibilities, occupations, enterprises, etc.)
MacCormick, Alex.
The Dried Flower Arranger.
London: Michael O’Mara Books Limited. 1992. (Directions using contemporary methods to duplicate colonial arrangements.)
Milford, Susan.
The Kids’ Nature Book, 365 Indoor/Outdoor Activities and Experiences.
Charlotte, Vermont: Williamson Publishing. 1989. (Experiences with nature common to contemporary and colonial children.)
Morgan, Edmund S.
The Puritan Family, Essays on Religion and Domestic Relations in
Seventeenth-Century New England
. Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Trustees of the Public Library. 1944. (Very insightful to understanding Puritanism.)
Nylander, Jane C.
Our Own Snug Fireside, Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1993. ((In depth study of early New England life.)
Price, Mary and Vincent.
A National Treasury of Cookery, Recipes of Early America.
New York, New York: Heirloom Publishing Company. 1967. (Collection of historical recipes. Illustrations of many kitchen implements.)
Rawson, Marion Nicholl.
When Antiques Were Young, A Story of Early American Social Customs.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1931. (Descriptive narrative of early, commonly used items and furnishings with their uses, and folk practices.)
Schultz, Carolyn and Adelia Stucky.
Wheat Weaving Made Easy
. North Newton, Kansas: Mennonite Press, Inc. 1977. (Directions for this colonial craft.)
Shelberg, Bernice Schenk.
Solomon’s House In The Woods.
U.S.A.: Distaff Publishing. 1999. (Discusses the beginnings of the middle settlement between the Connecticut and the New Haven colonies.)
Sloan, Eric.
The Seasons of America Past.
New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1958. (Extraordinary illustrations of tools and tasks.)
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
. The Age of Homespun, Objects and Stories in the Creation of An American Myth
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2001. (Provides cultural understanding of nineteenth century Americans by examining the significance of a variety of ordinary household objects.)
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.
Good Wives, Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1982. (A study of the woman’s role; cultural expectations, and behavior. Organized into three role types.)
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.
A Midwife’s Tale, the Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1990. (In depth recounting of a Puritan woman with multiple family and community commitments.)
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.
Crafts Jamboree.
New York, Cincinnati, Toronto, London, Melborne. 1977. (Directions for crafts which resemble colonial crafts.)