What is Daily Life America?

• The fourth and most recent addition to Greenwood's flagship Daily Life Online suite of social-history products (a 33% addition of content), available as a standalone product or integrated, customizable versions containing Daily Life through History Basic and various members of the Daily Life Online family
• A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present
• A virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, audio clips
• A key resource supporting courses in American history and literature at the high school and college level—but with a fresh approach
• A dazzling web experience for anyone hankering to explore the back roads and byways of the American experience

What's in Daily Life America?

• One hundred recently published books, worth more than $9,000 if purchased separately, including
  • The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures
  • The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the Fifty United States
  • Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days
  • Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America
  • Famous American Crimes and Trials
• Thousands of primary documents (recipes, newspaper articles, etc.)
• State-by-State Resource Center: ready-reference information (capital, key cities, population, size), as well as nicknames, flags, mottoes, birds, songs, holidays, and observances
• Classroom resources (lesson plans, curriculum correlations)
• Multimedia
• Links to vetted websites
• More than 1,000 photos, drawings, maps
• Advanced search, advanced browse
• regular enhancements
• Available as standalone or fully integrated with DLO suite

What does Daily Life in America cover?

• Food and cooking
• Holidays and festivals
• Clothing and fashion
• Housing and furnishings
• Religion and spirituality
• Folkways
• Games and amusements
• Music and dance
• Family life
• Women's history and culture
• Native American and other ethnic cultures
• Regional cultures
• And more...

Who needs Daily Life America?

• Students looking for fresh research topics
• Teachers of history, literature, drama, social studies, education (and more); the site covers every period outlined in the National Standards for United States History
• History buffs with a taste for the offbeat, the gritty, the tangy
• Librarians who serve all of the above
• What sort of questions can Daily Life America answer?
• What's really the difference between New England and California accents?
• Why would an adobe house look as out place in Maine as a clapboard saltbox would look in Arizona?
• What in the world is lutefisk or a hushpuppy; how (and why) would you want to eat either of them?
• What were the Top Ten hits everyone was singing in the 1880s?
• What kinds of trouble were kids getting into while the American Revolution was going on?