How Things Worked Series

10 primary works • 10 total works
JHU Press
Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
by
4.10 · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 10 editions
Home heating networks during the Industrial Revolu…

Shelve Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

    • Rate it:
    Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America
    by
    3.62     · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2014 · 7 editions
    A look at the process of entering America a hundre…

    Shelve Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America

    • Rate it:
    Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
    by
    3.29     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
    This Civil War history provides an in-depth look a…

    Shelve Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops

    • Rate it:
    Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
    by
    3.64     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions
    Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward…

    Shelve Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains

    • Rate it:
    Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
    by
    3.83     · 6 Ratings · published 2015 · 5 editions
    The irrationally exuberant highs and lows of the 1…

    Shelve Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked

    • Rate it:
    Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
    by
    4.17     · 24 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 5 editions
    Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two do…

    Shelve Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic

    • Rate it:
    Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America
    by
    3.52     · 44 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 4 editions
    The unknown history of American public education. …

    Shelve Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America

    • Rate it:
    The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
    by
    4.14     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 4 editions
    Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Grea…

    Shelve The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked

    • Rate it:
    Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice
    by
    3.74     · 23 Ratings · 9 Reviews · 6 editions
    How increased access to ice―decades before refrige…

    Shelve Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice

    • Rate it:
    Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon
    by
    3.90     · 21 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 4 editions
    How did cattle drives come about―and why did the c…

    Shelve Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon

    • Rate it: