Favorite Links

Food History

YouTube video about the history of lunch

Feeding America site which includes full-text vintage American cookbooks. From the site:

"Feeding America is an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes 76 cookbooks from the MSU Libraries' collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions.

The aim of the online collection is to highlight an important part of America's cultural heritage for teachers, students, researchers investigating American social history, professional chefs, and lifelong learners of all ages."

USA Food Timeline

Garden History

Garden Digest History of Gardening Timeline

Smithsonian Timeline of American Garden History

Chelsea Physic Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden

Seed Savers

National Agricultural Library’s (NAL) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection

Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection on archive.org

Women’s History

Biodiversity Heritage Library Women in Science

University of Pennsylvania: A Celebration of Women Writers

Link to 1910-1912 Baedeker travel texts on archive.org

Here are links to some open-source online texts I used one year when I taught a course on women's travel during the 19th and early-20th centuries:

Backsheesh by Nellie Sims 1900

As Seen by Me by Lilian Bell 1900

A Summer Holiday in Europe by Mary Elizabeth Blake 1890

Fair France by Dinah Maria Mulock 1871

The Ins and Outs of Paris by Julie de Marguerittes 1855

Hap-Hazard by Kate Field 1883

Over the Ocean by Sarah Haight 1846

Two Travellers in Europe by Mrs. Herman L. (Adelaide) Hall 1898

From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe 1868

Bits of Travel by Helen Hunt Jackson 1885

European Travel for Women: Notes and Suggestions by Mary Cadwalader 1900

Holidays Abroad by Caroline Matilda Kirkland 1849