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Home and
Community Life in America |
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The Museum has many collections related to family and social
life in America and the intersections between public and private
life in our nation's past |
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The collection provides a distinctive view of 19th-century
American life |
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Learn about Thanksgiving in North America |
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Recommended reading list |
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See if you can figure out what life was like 200
years ago for Thomas and Elizabeth Springer's family
in New Castle, Delaware. |
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Features books that guided the 19th-century housewife.
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries hold many
of these works from throughout the 19th-century |
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Explores the connections between Americans and the
foods they produce, prepare, preserve, and present
at the table |
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The Smithsonian's sustainable seafood cookbook reflects
growing interest in making food choices from an
environmental perspective |
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Explores the colorful heritage of lunch containers
dating from the 1890s through the 1980s |
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Religion and Spiritual Traditions |
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Chinese-American teenagers
look within their communities for examples of ancestor
worship |
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Recommended reading list |
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Faith and spiritual traditions
in the African American community |
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