Special Collections Finding Aids

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

The Voices of American Homemakers collection (1981-1983) consists of interviews with 196 women throughout the United States about homemaking in the first half of the twentieth century. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a major grant to the National Extension Homemakers Council for a three-year nationwide project to collect, process, and disseminate representative oral histories from rural homemakers throughout the country.

Source Collection

Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries

Keywords

Family--United States., Home economics--United States., Housewives--United States--Interviews., Rural conditions., Oral histories.

Date

2023 November

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