Home Life in Colonial Days

Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle invites readers into the intimate, richly textured world of everyday life in early America, far beyond battles and founding fathers. With meticulous research and a storyteller’s eye, Earle recreates the rhythms of colonial households—how families cooked, dressed, worked, worshiped, raised children, and marked life’s passages. Drawing on diaries, letters, sermons, inventories, and household records, this classic work reveals the moral codes, domestic ingenuity, and quiet hardships that shaped colonial society. Warm, vivid, and endlessly fascinating, Home Life in Colonial Days is an essential read for history lovers, cultural historians, and anyone curious about how ordinary people built extraordinary lives in the New World.