This online exhibit was first published in 2001. Cornell University Library archived the original version of the online exhibit in 2024. This site includes the original version's content and images with an updated web design.

What was Home Economics?

Overview

Timeline

Faculty Biographies

Home Sewing

What Type of Research Did Home Economists Do?

What Careers Did Home Economics Include?

What Was the Impact of the College of Home Economics on a National and International Level?

What Formats and Techniques Did Home Economists Use to Educate the Public?

What Role Did Home Economists Play in the National Emergencies of the Twentieth Century?

How Did Home Economists Influence American Consumer Culture?

How Did Home Economics Students See Themselves?

What Were Practice Apartments?

What Was the Role of Home Economics in the Life of the University?

Why the Change to Human Ecology?

Women's Suffrage

What was Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship with Cornell's College of Home Economics?

Lemo Rockwood and "The Marriage Course"

Quotes

Alumnae Interviews

Additional resources are available from the Mann Library web site titled: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)