The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840

A fascinating history of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic, told often in their own words.

The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American life. However, most American were enmeshed in the myriad ordinary concerns of their lives, and although deeply affected by the great events of the time, their concern with them was intermittent. Jac...