The following works were among those especially helpful in the production of this special millennium section.
– “The Columbia History of the 20th Century,” Richard W. Bulliet, editor; Columbia University Press, 1998.
– “Everyday Life Through the Ages,” Michael Worth Davison, editor; Reader’s Digest, 1992.
– “American Home Life: 1890-1930–A Social History of Spaces and Services,” Jessica Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth, editors; University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
– “The Americans: A Social History of the United States,” J.C. Furnas; Putnam, 1969.
– “Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness,” Suellen Hoy; Oxford, 1995.
– “The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape,” James Howard Kunstler; Simon & Schuster, 1993.
– “The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840,” Jack Larkin; Harper & Row, 1988.
– “House,” Albert Lorenz; Abrams, 1998.
– “Houses: Habitats & Home Life,” Fiona Macdonald; Franklin Watts, 1994.
– “City of the Century,” Donald Miller; Simon & Schuster, 1996.
– “Hearth & Home: A History of Material Culture,” Norman J.G. Pounds; Indiana University Press, 1989.
– “The Ordeal of the Longhouse,” Daniel K. Richter; University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
– “How the Other Half Lives,” Jacob Riis; Dover, 1901.
– “City Life,” Witold Rybczynski; Simon & Shuster, 1995.
– “Home: A Short History of an Idea,” Witold Rybczynski; Penguin, 1986.
– “The Most Beautiful House in the World,” Witold Rybczynski; Viking, 1989.
– “The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849,” Cecil Woodham-Smith; Harper & Row, 1962.
