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The history of domestic science often begins in the Progressive Era, with the stalwart figures of Ellen Richards and Fannie Farmer. It was a movement that emphasized the professionalization of housework and scientific principles. While both are facets of domestic science, a deep…

This dissertation's objective is to employ a lens of competing camps to the study of progressive education in San Diego across the course of a century. Published work neglects to tell the full story of the progressive experience in schools. This study investigates, explores and …

In the late-nineteenth century, the United States faced a crisis of economic inequality. As increasingly severe economic depressions rocked the nation and brought relations between capital and labor to a breaking point, contemporaries of all types proposed solutions to the crisi…