Your Free Colonial Home Field Guide

A room-by-room reference to colonial American domestic life, 1650 to 1800.

The Colonial Home Field Guide covers four rooms of the colonial household: the kitchen and hearth, the pantry and food storage, the parlor, and the bedchamber. For each room it tells you what people owned, what they used it for, and what the material record reveals about how colonial households actually worked. It includes a glossary of eighteen period household terms and a curated guide to free primary source archives for anyone who wants to go deeper.

It is free for subscribers to The Colonial Hearth Letter.

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After subscribing you will receive a welcome email with your download link. The Colonial Hearth Letter arrives every Monday with one new discovery from the archive: a period recipe, a household object, a primary source find.