Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators wh...o, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in American... history is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, into ...this susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization, ...and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »