(4) YA Daily Life in America in the 1800s series. Everyday life for nineteenth-century Americans was fraught with great change and shifting influences. For the report-driven reader, these titles provide straightforward, chronological discussions highlighting the significant people and events that affected family life, work, political ideology, and spirituality. Primary sources, archival photographs and drawings, and maps offer further detail but do little to alter the textbooklike impression. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Daily Life in America in the 1800s titles: Scandals and Glory, The Sweat of Their Brow, Buggies, Bicycles, and Iron Horses, Outlaws and Lawmen, and Reviving the Spirit, Reforming Society.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) YA Daily Life in America in the 1800s series. Everyday life for nineteenth-century Americans was fraught with great change and shifting influences. For the report-driven reader, these titles provide straightforward, chronological discussions highlighting the significant people and events that affected family life, work, political ideology, and spirituality. Primary sources, archival photographs and drawings, and maps offer further detail but do little to alter the textbooklike impression. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Daily Life in America in the 1800s titles: Scandals and Glory, The Sweat of Their Brow, Buggies, Bicycles, and Iron Horses, Outlaws and Lawmen, and Reviving the Spirit, Reforming Society.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale