At Home invites the reader into the early American home to learn firsthand what it was like to live in and manage a house before electric lighting, central heat

Before 1973, the Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, lived in the privacy of their own home. With the airing of the documentary An American Family, that "

The American family has come a long way from the days of the idealized family portrayed in iconic television shows of the 1950s and 1960s. The four volumes of T

In this book, leading authorities on the family show how families, parents, and children have been affected by changing patterns of marriage and cohabitation. T