HIST 840 House in History (Fall 2020) Discussion Materials – Week 2

GLOBAL CONCEPTS OF “HOME;”
THE YEAR 1850 IN ENGLAND; AN IDEAL AMERICAN HOME, 1869

Readings:

Moore, The Prehistory of Home, Chapter 1 (“The Prehistory of Home”), pp. 1-14

Bryson, At Home, 2 plans at front of book, “Introduction” and Chapter 1 (“The Year”)

Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman’s Home, or Principles of Domestic Science (New York: J. B. Ford, 1869), Chapter 2, “A Christian Home,” pp. 23-42 (Chap. 2: https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa/2#page/35/mode/2up, or .pdf of entire volume at https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa/2/datastream/PDF_REM/View/)

Images:

Videos:

The Great Exhibition of 1851 (overview, 3:54 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqM6PXyp5MA

An Illustrated Tour of the Great Exhibition, Part 2 (22 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDj8VquIQY

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s house in Hartford, Conn., 1873-96 (6:04 min.; watch 3:40-4:50 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wQSipL5mA

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s house in Brunswick, Maine, 1850-52 (3:04 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LefjMIwyvms

Stereoscopic photographs of New England house interiors, c. 1870s-90s (5:20 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6qUhGrxdg