The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

512 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America-ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock-relinquish their stories a...

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