Adams, Annmarie. Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900. Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.

This study focuses on England, but Adams discusses parallel trends in the United States and points out some differences. On pages 99-101 she says late nineteenth-century American women "were encouraged to make extensive renovations to their homes, including substantial changes to the plans of their houses." She specifically cites Helen Dodd and her book The Healthful Farmhouse.

Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981.

In part III, "Cooperative Housekeeping," see especially chapter 4, "Housewives in Harvard Square," where the Cambridge Cooperative Housekeeping Society is featured. The New England Kitchen and the Rumford Kitchen are discussed in part IV, chapter 8, "Public Kitchens, Social Settlements, and the Cooperative Ideal." In part V, "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Influence," see especially chapter 10, "Community Kitchens and Cooked Food Services." And in part VI, "Backlash," see especially chapter 13, "Madame Kollontai and Mrs. Consumer," where Christine Frederick, author of The New Housekeeping, appears on pages 285-289.

McMurry, Sally. Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America: Vernacular Design and Social Change. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

See chapter 4, "The Spheres Diverge: Work on the Progressive Farmstead, 1855-1885," especially pages 99-104 and 111-118, which describe how kitchen design reflected changes in women's roles, responsibilities, and ambitions.

Wright, Gwendolyn. Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Plans published in The Ladies' Home Journal, including those by Frank Lloyd Wright, are discussed on pages 136-140 of chapter 4, "The Homelike World." In chapter 5, "Model Housewives and Model Houses," Mrs. Coleman Stuckert's cooperative housekeeping project and the Rumford Kitchen are included (page 152) in a discussion of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.

National Center for History in the Schools National Standards for History
http://nchs.ucla.edu/standards/

Standards in Historical Thinking (Grades 5-12)
STANDARD 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation

• Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions by identifying likenesses and differences.
• Consider multiple perspectives of various peoples in the past by demonstrating their differing motives, beliefs, interests, hopes, and fears.
• Hold interpretations of history as tentative, subject to changes as new information is uncovered, new voices heard, and new interpretations broached.

United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

Standard 1: How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people.
Standard 1A: The student understands the connections among industrialization, the advent of the modern corporation, and material well-being.

• Explain how organized industrial research produced technological breakthroughs, especially the Bessemer steel process, conversion to electrical power, and telephonic communication, and how these innovations transformed the economy, work processes, and domestic life (5-12).
• Examine how industrialization made consumer goods more available, increased the standard of living for most Americans, and redistributed wealth (9-12).

• Investigate how urban leaders, such as architects and philanthropists, responded to the challenges of rapid urbanization (7-12).

• Explain the change from workshop to factory and how it altered the worker's world (7-12).

• Specify the issues raised by various women and how mainstream Progressives responded to them (9-12).

• Analyze how the emergence of the 'New Woman' challenged Victorian values (9-12).

• Explain how principles of scientific management and technological innovations, including assembly lines, rapid transit, household appliances, and radio, continued to transform production, work, and daily life (5-12).

California History-Social Science Academic Content Standards
www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/

Analysis Skills: Research, Evidence, and Point of View (Grades 6-8)

• 1. Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.

8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

• 5. Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).

Analysis Skills: Research, Evidence, and Point of View (Grades 9-12)

• 4. Students construct and test hypotheses; collect, evaluate, and employ information from multiple primary and secondary sources; and apply it in oral and written presentations.

11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.

• 4. Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in society.
• 7. Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape.

Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework
www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/hss/final.pdf

Concepts and Skills (Grades 8-12): History and Geography

• 8. Interpret the past within its own historical context rather than in terms of present-day norms and values.

Industrial America and Its Emerging Role in International Affairs, 1870-1920

• USII.2 Explain the important consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

The Age of Reform: Progressivism and the New Deal, 1900-1940

• USII.9 Analyze the post-Civil War struggles of African Americans and women to gain basic civil rights.