The books in the Daily Life in the United States series form a subset of Greenwood Press’s acclaimed, ongoing Daily Life Through History series. They fit its basic framework and follow its format. This series focuses on the United States from the colonial period through the present day, with each book in the series devoted to a particular time period, place, or people. Collectively, the books promise the fullest description and analysis of “American” daily life in print. They do so, and will do so, by tracking closely the contours, character, and content of people’s daily lives, always with an eye to the sources of people’s interests, identities, and institutions. The books in the series assume the perspective and use the approaches of the new social history by looking at people “from the bottom up” as well as the top-down. Indian peoples and European colonists, blacks and whites, immigrants and the native-born, farmers and shopkeepers, factory owners and factory hands, movers and shakers, and those moved and shaken—all get their due. The books emphasize the habits, rhythms, and dynamics of daily life, from work to family matters, to religious practices, to socializing, to civic engagement, and more. The books show that the seemingly mundane—such as the ways any people hunt, gather, or grow food and then prepare and eat it—as much as the more profound reflections on life reveal how and why people ordered their world and gave meaning to