Thanks for asking.
My research has located the following sites and articles related to
your query. I've organized them into categories, roughly based on the
areas you mentioned in your query. Sources vary from modern articles
on historical subjects, to primary source documents by people of the
period.
General References / Home Life
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Could you survive the 1860's? - Ancestry.com offers an educational
quiz about life in 1860.
http://msn.ancestry.com/landing/msn/1860/1860_quiz.htm
US Civil War Center - Homefront Links
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/links12.htm#Homefront
Women and the Civil War - Primary Source Documents
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/civilwar.html
Love Letters of the Civil War
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/cwlove/
Women of the Civil War
http://www.geocities.com/victorianlace10/civilwar.html
Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read
http://www.merrycoz.org/kids.htm
19th Century Cult of the Lady
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7023/cultoflady.html
The Southern Homefront 1861-1865
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/homelife.html
Life in a Sod House
http://americanhistory2.si.edu/ourstoryinhistory/tryathome/activities_sodhouse.html
Further References
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Making of America
University of Michigan Digital Library Text Collection of Primary
Source books and journals. Many in digital image format.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Small Town America Stereoscopic Views 1850-1920
Stereoscopic images from the Tri-State Region on New York, New Jersey,
and Connecticut, going back to the 1850's.
http://digital.nypl.org/dennis/stereoviews/search.html
By Locality
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Ann Arbor and the Civil War 1860-1879
http://moaa.aadl.org/PictHistory/1860-1879pg1.php
The Only Complete History of the Mayors of Buffalo, NY - 1860's
http://www.buffalonian.com/history/industry/mayors/1860s.htm
Stories from the 1860's - Cherokee County Alabama
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcherok/1860stry.htm
Some Facts about Post Civil War Era in Indiana
http://www.freetown.org/facts.html
The Leatherman
http://members.skyweb.net/~channy/leatherman.html
The Civil War in Montana
http://newpsych.org/virginia/cwmt3.htm#violence
Augusta County in the 1860's
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~ela/auhome/contents.html
North Georgia's Home Front
http://www.ngeorgia.com/history/civilga.html
Corvallis Oregon 1851-1868 - Select the appropriate categories/eras
from the left-hand menu. Categories include Development, Commercial
Activity, Transportation, Industry, Building, Agriculture,
Communication, Education, Religion, Diversity, Social Organizations,
Recreation
http://www.ci.corvallis.or.us/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=196&op=page&SubMenu=
Underground Railroad in Litchfield Connecticut
http://members.skyweb.net/~channy/URR.html
Fight from the Home Front/Hoosier Home Life During the Civil War
http://www.in.gov/iwm/pdfs/Homelife.pdf
Wisconsin Stories - The Civil War at Home
http://wisconsinstories.org/2001season/civilwar/temmer_essay.html
Travel in the 1850's and 1860's
http://sd.znet.com/~schester/fallbrook/history/ey_essays/transport/1850s.html
A Boys Experience in the Civil War
http://docsouth.unc.edu/hughest/hughes.html
Life in Confederate Arkansas
http://peace.saumag.edu/swark/articles/ahq/arkansas/confederatelife/confederatelife15.html
Medicine
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19th Century Diseases
http://members.aol.com/wwhitby/diseases.html
From Quackery to Bacteriology:
The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America
http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack-index.html
Old Fashioned Medicine
http://www.greencis.net/~shart/medicine.html
Medicine in the Civil War
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/doctor.htm
Patent Medicine Advertisement
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/singles/h1866p32.htm
Civil War Medicine: An Overview
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/introduction.cfm
Fashion / Clothing
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Victorian Fashions 1850's-1860's
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Grove/8015/fashion1.html
Women's Civil War Fashions
http://groups.msn.com/2ndUSCav/womenscivilwarfashions.msnw
Victorian Furniture
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles03/victorian_furniture1.shtml
Food
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1860's Foods
http://www.buffnet.net/~macdowel/cross/recipes.htm
1860's Victorian Kitchen
http://www.housemouse.net/hkitch6.htm#gadgets
Southern Food History
http://www.southernfood.com/history.html
Demographics and Statistics
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Life Expectancy by Age 1850 - 2000
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
The Longevity Meme
http://www.longevitymeme.org/articles/viewarticle.cfm?page=2&article_id=9
Readers Companion to American History
Fertility and Mortality Rates
http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_009701_fertilityand.htm
Historical Census Data/Browser
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Various Statistics in the following categories: Agriculture, Churches,
Education and Literacy, General Population Characteristics,
Manufacturing, Race and Place of Birth, Taxation and Property
Historical Census Data 1860
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/censusbin/census/cen.pl?year=860
Historical Census Data 1870
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/censusbin/census/cen.pl?year=870
Measuring America - The Decennial Census from 1790-2000
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This is an extremely large .pdf document (150 pages) that offers a
history of the US Census, including copies of original census
questionnaires from 1790 to present.
US Census Bureau - Measuring America
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/pol02-ma.pdf
Google Search Terms
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food history american 1860's
1860's transportation
1860's
"civil war era"
1860's household
"home life" 1860..1870
fashions 1860's
1860's "medical practice"
food 1860..1870
1860's medicine history
1860's medicine
leading "cause of death" "19th century" OR "civil war era"
mortality rates 1860 US
I hope you find these referrals useful. Should you have any questions
about the links provided, please, feel free to ask for clarification.
---larre |
